Yearbook on Space Policy 2009/2010

Part 1. The Year in Space 2009/2010

1. European space activities in the global context
Spyros Pagkratis

2. Developments in space policies, programmes and technologies throughout the world and in Europe
Spyros Pagkratis

Part 2. Views and Insights

3. Space in the financial and economic crisis
Christophe Venet

4. The legal personality of the European Union and its effects on the development of space activities in Europe
Lesley Jane Smith

5. Institutional development of satellite navigation in Europe
Kai-Uwe Schrogl, Spyros Pagkratis, Blandina Baranes

6. The new 2010 U.S. space policy
Michael Sheehan

7. The potential for transatlantic cooperation in the International Space Station programme and space exploration
Ian Pryke

8. Trends in shaping space policies around the world
Deganit Paikowsky, Isaac Ben Israel

9. Space applications after Copenhagen
Simonetta Cheli

10. Satellite Earth observation and disaster management — lessons and needs after the Indian Ocean tsunami and the Haiti earthquake
Ray Harris

11. Implications of new trends in small satellite development
Rainer Sandau

Part 3. Facts and Figures

12. Chronology: June 2009–May 2010
Spyros Pagkratis, Blandina Baranes

13. Country profiles
Kai-Uwe Schrogl, Spyros Pagkratis, Blandina Baranes

14. Bibliography of space policy publications. July 2009–June 2010
Blandina Baranes

Keywords: Engineering, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Political Science, general, Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space, R & D/Technology Policy