March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
...to the approach taken by the US government to support and regulate private investment in space under the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, wherein launch standards are based on ‘voluntary industry consensus standards’. Progress reports are...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... 2015 the United States, passed the US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (HR 2262), which includes Title IV - ‘Space Resource Exploration and Utilization’. Section 402 adds Section 51303 to the US space law code. A United States citizen...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... the year before, and was itself absorbed into a larger space issues bill known as HR 2262, itself entitled the US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (‘Competitiveness Act’) . This was the act that became law for the US as of late 2015, the...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... so that the US Congress has extended property rights into space and is writing new legal regulations for space activity. With the passage of the US commercial space Launch Competitiveness Act in 2015, companies will be setting the agenda, much like...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... piece of legislation focusing on the development of the US commercial space sector, the ‘US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015’. One title of this law, Title IV - Space Resource Exploration and Utilization, has elicited considerable...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... of their national interests. There has been growing interest in utilising outer space resources for commercial benefit, as evidenced by the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015 and the pending Artemis Accords. Likewise, events such...
