In the fifth installment of our #SWMEThemes on Space Resources and the Middle East, UAE space lawyer Humaid Al Shamsi explores the opportunities and legal and policy challenges for Middle Eastern states seeking to exploit space resources. Humanity relies heavily on natural resources and continued human...
According to MIT News, the module will "serve as a commercially owned space station, featuring a luxury hotel as the primary anchor tenant and NASA as a temporary co-anchor tenant. The artice from MIT news is reproduced below. You can also read the original here. An...
You’d think six lunar landing sites 238,900 miles away from Earth wouldn’t need to be protected. Admired on a warm, summer night? Yes. Written about in poetry? Sure. But not protected. Wouldn’t the distance alone keep curious Earthlings from ever disturbing those sacrosanct stretches of...
Steven Melendez from Fast Company writes about Luxembourg and the United Arab Emirates wanting "their piece of pie in the sky." We think both nations are well on their way to getting very generous pieces of that pie! We encourage you to read Mr. Melendez's...
Whether you’re an entrepreneur or an investor, it’s time to face the facts. There’s already an app for that, and the “Internet of Things” – or IoT as popular nomenclature dictates – already pretty much encompasses all things. The next generation of breakthroughs are going...
In March, for the first time in its history, the Fire Department of New York employed a drone to help put out a fire. The drone, equipped with infrared and hi-definition cameras, was used to pinpoint hot spots in a building in the Bronx. Using drones to...
Last winter, the House Subcommittee on Space held a hearing entitled “Regulating Space: Innovation, Liberty, and International Obligations.” Five witnesses spoke eloquently and reverently about space, while a number of other individuals and organizations submitted written testimony. The prevailing sentiment was that less is more. Over-regulation, the argument goes, is...