White Sands Missile Range has continued to play a crucial role in supporting U.S. space activities well into the 21st century ...

FAA announces plans to charge for commercial space activity for the first time.

Private companies are no longer peripheral participants in U.S. space activities. They provide key services, including launching and deploying satellites, transporting cargo and astronauts to the ...

On March 24, 2026, the Office of Space Commerce (OSC) at the Department of Commerce (Commerce) published a proposed process to authorize novel space activities not currently or directly addressed by ...

Space is filled with garbage. More specifically, the low Earth orbit, where most satellites and space equipment spend their time. NASA estimates that there are nearly 6,000 tons of material in low ...

Marc Berkowitz (left), nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as assistant secretary of defense for space policy, and Joseph Jewell, Trump’s pick for assistant secretary of defense for science ...

In this episode of Tax Notes Talk, Erika Isabella Scuderi, visiting assistant professor of tax law at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law, discusses her proposal for establishing taxing ...

COPUOS remains the only global forum where all established and emerging space nations sit together to discuss the technical, legal and policy dimensions of outer space activities. With more than 100 ...

As I am writing this, the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft it carries are still trapped inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, where it was transported for repairs at the end of ...

Global activity in Earth orbit is booming, with cheaper launch, growing megaconstellations and the emergence of commercial actors transforming space activities. But the legal framework underpinning ...

Commercial providers like SpaceX contract with NASA to fulfill the agency’s rocket launch needs. Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP Private companies are no longer peripheral participants in U.S. space ...