On September 2019, the Outer Space community has seen an unprecedented event. One of the SpaceX’s Starlink constellation satellite was potentially about to collide with ESA’s Aeolus. Despite the fact that the risk was acknowledged to be very low and after the US DoD sent several warnings, SpaceX yet still refused to move its satellite. ESA eventually decided to transfer its own satellite up to...
Extreme weather events, environmental crises and the decrease in the available resources due to climate change pose several threats to human health. Ensuring global health care is therefore one of the main concerns of the international community. The UN General Assembly resolution 72/139 underlined the importance of developing “efficient and innovative approaches…to address the health needs of...
“War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means” wrote Prussian General Carl von Clausewitz in the 19th century. While methods, weaponry, rhetoric and most importantly the legal framework of warfare has changed over centuries, the recourse to belligerent activities is a recurring event throughout human civilization and is no stranger to mankind’s...
Besides their direct impact on scientific knowledge, space programmes are playing a key role in the fight against climate change by giving decision-makers more and more accurate and crucial information. The role of space programmes dedicated to climate change is also important, since they may provide available public data through open data policies.
For instance, the studies of the ozone...
With a population of almost 8 billion, the global impact of human civilization on the environment has never been higher. Societal changes over recent decades have significantly transformed both the human environment and the relationship humans maintain with it. Scholars are notably depicting two unprecedented transformations in modern societies. The first is the dominance of the “global...
More and more space objects are launched into space, thus space debris is increasingly growing. Space traffic management is an urgent need recognized by all major space-faring nations. Through the forums already in place such as the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) agreements and efforts have been concluded...
Remotely sensed Earth observation (EO) data is fundamental for the effectivity of environmental governance. It constitutes the technical foundation of a successful mitigation of climate change and supports the implementation and monitoring of multilateral environmental agreements.
Nicolas Peter. (2004) The use of remote sensing to support the application of multilateral environmental...
