Yearbook on Space Policy 2008/2009: Setting New Trends

✍ Scribed by European Space Policy Institute, Vienna, Austria (auth.), Kai-Uwe Schrogl, Wolfgang Rathgeber, Blandina Baranes, Christophe Venet (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 364
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Yearbook on Space Policy aims to be the reference publication analysing space policy developments. Each year it presents issues and trends in space policy and the space sector as a whole. Its scope is global and its perspective is European. The Yearbook also links space policy with other policy areas. It highlights specific events and issues, and provides useful insights, data and information on space activities. The Yearbook on Space Policy is edited by the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) based in Vienna, Austria. It combines in-house research and contributions of members of the European Space Policy Research and Academic Network (ESPRAN), coordinated by ESPI. The Yearbook is designed for government decision-makers and agencies, industry professionals, as well as the service sectors, researchers and scientists and the interested public.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
European space activities in the global context....Pages 2-97
Developments in space policies, programmes and technologies throughout the world and in Europe....Pages 99-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
The new geostrategic context for space and the positioning of Europe....Pages 154-163
Forecasting the consequences of the “Crash of 2008” on space activities....Pages 164-178
Space as a strategic policy area for Europe and the European Union....Pages 179-187
GMES — Status review and policy developments....Pages 188-207
Integrated applications: a new way forward for Europe — Some legal thoughts....Pages 208-222
The past and future of security-related satellite missions in Europe....Pages 223-236
Latest trends in the national authorisation and regulation of space activities in Europe....Pages 237-253
Iridium-Cosmos collision and its implications for space operations....Pages 254-275
The Space Policy of the New U.S. Administration....Pages 276-285
China’s space programme and Asia....Pages 286-299
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
Chronology: July 2008–June 2009....Pages 302-313
Country profiles....Pages 314-338
Bibliography of space policy publications. July 2008–June 2009....Pages 339-345
Back Matter....Pages 346-364

✦ Subjects

Political Science