Space Sustainability Law and Policy Winter School
14–20 December 2026 · Snowdonia, North Wales
A residential programme bringing practitioners, policymakers and scholars together for a week of intensive work on space sustainability law and policy. Small by design — the value is in the room.
What is included
- Sessions across the full programme
- Accommodation for six nights
- All meals
- Access to our online course
Who it is for
Engineers, operations leads, policy teams, insurers and academics working on or around space activity. No prior legal background is required.
Venue
The programme runs at Astralship, an innovation space in a converted chapel in Snowdonia, inside an International Dark Sky Reserve. The cohort is capped at ten.
Programme outline
Arrival from the afternoon of 14 December; departure the morning of 20 December. Five teaching days across the week:
- Foundations — the UN space treaties and how they reach national licensing
- Sustainability — debris mitigation, end-of-life obligations and responsible operations
- Liability and insurance — who answers when things go wrong in orbit
- National regimes — UK licensing in depth, with comparative views
- Policy in practice — a working session on building a compliance strategy
Fees and registration
£1,500