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Dr Thomas Cheney
Space Governance Scholar
Using legal geography and environmental humanities to better understanding space resources, space exploration, space settlement and more!
The Rescue Agreement at 50: The IISL/ECSL Symposium
The first Monday afternoon of the annual session of the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS)...
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Apr 15, 20186 min read
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UK Space Industry Bill: Second Commons Reading
On Monday 15 January, the 2nd anniversary of British ESA astronaut Tim Peake’s historic spacewalk, the House of Commons debated the Space...
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Jan 19, 20185 min read
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UK Space Industry Bill: A Missed Opportunity to Promote British Space Mining?
The UK Space Industry Bill has now passed the House of Lords and is on its way to the House of Commons, the date for its second reading...
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Dec 15, 20176 min read
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Sentinel 5P and Brexit
Notice the flag in the upper left… On Friday Sentinel-5P was launched. The British press were keen to emphasise that it was ‘British...
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Oct 16, 20174 min read
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UK Space Industry Bill
The Space Industry Bill[1] was announced as part of the Queen’s Speech on 21 June 2017. It received its first reading in the House of...
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Jul 3, 20172 min read
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Commons Science and Technology Select Committee Review of UK Draft Spaceflight Bill
The Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology recently conducted an enquiry into the UK Draft Spaceflight Bill[1] and have now...
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May 8, 20175 min read
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Spexit: What Does Brexit Mean for the UK’s Place in Space? Part 2
This is the second of what will probably be three posts on the consequences of Brexit on the UK Space Sector. The first post served as a...
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Mar 6, 20177 min read
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UK Spaceflight Act 2017
A UK spaceport has been on the horizon for a few years now and there are number of different sites scattered throughout the UK that have...
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Feb 27, 20174 min read
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Spexit: What Does Brexit Mean for the UK’s Place in Space? Part 1
This was originally intended to be a single post largely derived from a presentation I gave at a conference on ‘The Impact of the 2016...
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Feb 6, 20177 min read
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