At the Regulation of Emerging Modes of Aerospace Transportation (REMAT) conference in Montreal on May 24-25, the main topic of discussion was point-to-point suborbital transportation by future aero-spacecraft, but space tourism and the general issue of ensuring the safety of civil aviation with respect to space operations was also very much debated. In this respect it was underlined that the [...]
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Red Lines in Outer Space
Source: Matthew Kleiman and Sonia McNeil for The Space Review Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently announced that the United States would join international efforts to develop an International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities. Space systems are “of vital interest to the United States and the global community,” Secretary Clinton observed, and the Code of Conduct is [...]
State Department: Leading with Diplomacy to Strengthen Stability in Space
Source Department of State Remarks by Frank A. Rose Deputy Assistant Secretary Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance U.S. Department of State USSTRATCOM Cyber and Space Symposium Omaha, Nebraska November 17, 2011 Thank you for your kind introduction. I am honored to have been invited back to the Symposium to give a keynote speech this year. When I spoke last [...]
