July 2019
Luxembourg’s space legislation
...hold more than 10 percent of the shares in the company must be revealed As can be seen, Luxembourg’s space resources legislation reacted to the imminent need of space operators to have a transparent document which defines their obligations and rights...
May 2018
Why national space laws on the exploitation of resources of celestial bodies contradict international law
...the traditional argument that the letters of international legislation governing activities in outer space are either not ... conclusion has to be drawn: no state can at all legislate unilaterally when it comes to the exploitation of outer space and...
August 2016
National legislation provides incentives for private business
... well as considering states lacking a generic space law and the impact of other regulatory elements besides space legislation. Several countries have enacted national space laws, which diverge in their substances largely as a result of the intrinsic...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
... that have comparable contingent liabilities.” Launch bottlenecks It is clear from the limitations outlined above that, without legislative action, the UK regulatory framework in place before March 2018 was not adequately equipped to deal with small...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... remote sensing licenses, the number denied, reasons for denial and other information generally designed to give legislators an analysis of the efficiency of the current system. Next, the Act retitled the ‘Office of Space Commercialization’, housed...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
... mind that mining companies are already beginning to invest in programmes for future space resources extraction new legislation is long overdue. These new endeavours represent high-risk investment and companies actively developing technologies which...
