The development of 5G services is being portrayed as the future network of networks, so the satellite industry is keen to ensure its valuable contributions are not frozen out of this ecosystem due to technical standards designed only for terrestrial systems. A strong move in that direction was taken on May 18, when the Electronic…

One of the lesser known results from this year’s World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12) was a new resolution designed to improve the ITU rules for small satellites called nano- and pico-satellites. New resolution 757 calls on the ITU radiocommunication sector to examine procedures that apply to ITU processing of these small satellites and report to the…

A little more than a year ago, in our September 2011 column, we asked what is UNIDROIT and why were satellite operators saying such bad things about it? The question now is what role should the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have in overseeing a space asset registry that was adopted in UNIDROIT over the strident…

Policy makers in both the United States and the United Kingdom are examining their rules on the accident liability of launch providers and satellite operators. The U.K. Space Agency (UKSA) initiated a consultation at the end of May 2012, with comments due at the end of August, on liability provisions in the Outer Space Act…