September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... to broaden in response to rapid changes in the global economy. AEB is reviewing the regulatory and commercial legislation, focusing on attracting companies to do business and bring their facilities to Brazil. The Brazilian Space Act, currently...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... a commercial framework under international law for companies to own the resources they mine and similar types of legislation have been passed by Liechtenstein and Luxembourg to offer legal frameworks for licensing of resources mined in space. It has...
January 2021
Developing the economy of a space nation
... a place to visit. Preliminary debates about all this occurred some weeks earlier at two events called Asgardia Legislative Forums (ALF). These forums enable Parliamentarians to speak about a given subject, in this case the finances. At the...
February 2021
The Space Monuments Men
..., Steven set up Vanilla Fire Productions in 2007. The company’s first documentary, ‘Return to Tarawa’ succeeded in getting congressional legislation passed in Congress to bring home MIAs from World War II. The success of this and his next film...
August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
... have to take account of those elements introduced by States and organisations in their national policies/legislation related to AI and, in particular, notions of responsibility, liability, transparency and autonomy. In addition, elements of ‘guiding...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... the 1967 treaty in the short term are dim, US policymakers and diplomats should focus on strong national legislation on space resource issues, synchronisation of laws and standards with like-minded nations, close coordination with foreign...
