May 2018
Why national space laws on the exploitation of resources of celestial bodies contradict international law
... Antarctica case), or the Deep Seabed solution of Article 136 of the Law of the Sea Convention which allows exploitation in the deep seabed under very strict conditions. This is all up to the international community to decide as Article 11 paragraph...
June 2022
Space activities and space debris - finding an ethical balance
... contrary, motivated by the benefits that such activities bring to humanity, including monitoring climate change and identifying exploitative practices or optimising agriculture and farming. The possibility of a ‘second home’ should the Earth become...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... but the response to launch delays that small secondary payloads are experiencing. Indeed, the critical aspects of exploiting the commoditisation of space technology for developing missions in a few months is to have quick access to space to hit the...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
... first mining expedition on another world. Space taxes As the emphasis slowly changes from space exploration to space exploitation, legal regulations should not stay inert On Earth, although private ownership represents one’s right to use one...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
... problem of LTS. General principles of international space law, first of all free and non-discriminatory exploration and exploitation of outer space - Article I of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST) - and responsibility of states for all national...
February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
...data and products from the Jason-2 satellite - jointly exploited with NOAA, CNES and NASA - from EUMETSAT’s own...EO portal. The EU has entrusted EUMETSAT with the task of exploiting, in cooperation with ESA, the Copernicus Sentinel-3 marine mission. ...
