#spacepolicy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #spacepolicy, aggregated by home.social.
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"For now, people are more likely to be struck by lightning than by falling space junk. But those odds are shifting. Sean O’Keefe, a former NASA administrator, ... and other experts say that governments and companies should be compelled to use materials that will fully disintegrate. No such regulation exists."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/world/asia/space-debris-falling-crashing-earth-risk.html
#Space #SpaceDebris #SpacePolicy #SpaceLaw #SpaceSustainability
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"The U.S. Federal Communications Commission can single-handedly green-light massive spaceflight projects that could completely change the view of the night sky for the entire world. Despite the outcry these projects have caused, space law experts say there is very little other nations and the international community can do to thwart them if the FCC were to grant them licenses."
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🌌 Above us, an invisible constellation grows. Not of stars, but of our own making: fragments racing through the dark at unfathomable speeds, each piece a ghost of ambition turned hazard.
✍️ Explore the cascade we cannot see 🛰️: https://TPC8.short.gy/IZaOxCi5
💫 What we send skyward returns as legacy, sometimes circling for decades or longer in silent judgment.
#SpaceDebris #space #spacejunk #OrbitalEcology #SpaceSustainability #Astronomy #Science #SpacePolicy #KesslerSyndrome #TPC8
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"The fact that the #EU #Space Act establishes some binding measures regarding collision avoidance, information sharing, cybersecurity, and other space activities will break with past reluctance to go down that path and establish a new model. The United States and other stakeholders will find new challenges to their preference for laissez faire-driven space traffic management and space sustainability policies."
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Springer International has just released "Space Ecology: From Earth to Moon and Mars", by Patrizia Caraveo. The book "extends the concept of environmental protection to orbital space, which should be used in a sustainable way."
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-78344-9
#SpaceEnvironment #SpaceEnvironmentalism #SpaceSustainability #SpacePolicy
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"Recognizing #Indigenous knowledge systems as a vital part of humanity’s shared relationship with the cosmos is essential to ensuring that the expansion of space activities is both inclusive and sustainable. By fostering dialogue and integrating Indigenous perspectives into space governance, it is possible to strike a balance between technological progress and the protection of cultural heritage."
https://jurnal.fs.umi.ac.id/index.php/alpamet/article/view/795
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Meanwhile, although I never imagined I would agree with the government of #Iran about much, here we are. "Another critical consequence of the unchecked expansion of mega-constellations is light pollution."
The Islamic Republic's statement in the same COPUOS STSC session is on: https://www.unoosa.org/documents/pdf/copuos/stsc/2025/Statements/15_Iran.rev.pdf
#UnitedNations #COPUOS #SpacePolicy #SpaceLaw #SpaceDiplomacy #LightPollution #Space #Satellites #SpaceSustainability #SpaceEnvironment
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National Space Agencies’ Strategies for the Space Sector
#Astronauts #Astrophysics #ChineseSpaceStation #CommercialSpace #Communications #Competition #Earth #EarthObservation #ESA #Europe #EuropeanSpaceAgency #Geopolitical #HumanSpaceflight #Investment #ISRO #Jupiter #Launch #Lunar #Mars #Moon #NASA #Nuclear #PlanetaryScience #Policy #Propulsion #Science #SolarSystem #SpaceAgencies #SpaceCompanies #SpaceExploration #SpaceIndustry #SpacePolicy #SpacePropulsion #SpaceSector #SpaceStation #Spaceflight #Strategy #Technology #EditorSPicks #PolicyLawAndRegulation #SocioEconomic #SpaceEconomy
https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2024/04/10/national-space-agencies-strategies-for-the-space-sector/