James E. Dunstan, Author at SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Fri, 05 Jul 2024 13:42:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png James E. Dunstan, Author at SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 Regulating outer space after Loper Bright https://spacenews.com/regulating-outer-space-after-loper-bright/ https://spacenews.com/regulating-outer-space-after-loper-bright/#respond Fri, 05 Jul 2024 13:42:52 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=466063 The U.S. Supreme Court building. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0
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How Loper Bright could upend the process of crafting and enforcing space policy.

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Op-Ed | Who wants to step up to a $10 billion risk? https://spacenews.com/op-ed-who-wants-to-step-up-to-a-10-billion-risk/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 17:36:37 +0000 https://dev-spacenews.pantheonsite.io/?p=116472

A proposed satellite constellation would be registered in Papua New Guinea, which has not stepped up to accept specific international responsibility or liability for the activities of commercial entities it has licensed.

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Op-ed | Do we care about orbital debris at all? https://spacenews.com/op-ed-do-we-care-about-orbital-debris-at-all/ Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:48:25 +0000 http://dev.spacenews.com/?p=73519

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has promised to integrate better economic analysis across the commission’s work. Orbital debris would be a fine place to start, and the sooner the better.

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Commentary | Space Property Rights: It’s Time, and Here’s Where to Start https://spacenews.com/39294space-property-rights-its-time-and-heres-where-to-start/ https://spacenews.com/39294space-property-rights-its-time-and-heres-where-to-start/#respond Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:32:19 +0000 http://dev.spacenews.com/39294space-property-rights-its-time-and-heres-where-to-start/

‘We can lick gravity,” quipped Wernher von Braun, “but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.” 

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