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...
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...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
..., each coming to a different conclusion as to what it is they are describing. And thus it is today as world leaders, legislators, policymakers and academics try to understand what is happening in the Frontier Movement. Often well-meaning, each seems...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... intent to develop a specific legal and regulatory regime focused on space resources. While the exact details of this legislation are unknown at this time, it is certain that it will be supportive of the legal right to access, possess, use, transport...
