March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
...before at least in the United States, no federal agency has been delegated that jurisdiction by statute? Without further legislation, those decisions will have to come from the US Department of State, which is ill-equipped to effectively pick winners...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... a far cry from a fully-fledged space agency. The department also has responsibility for administering legislative arrangements regulating Australian civil space activities to ensure these activities do not jeopardise national interests and Australia...
May 2024
Could ICAO be a NewSpace regulator?
... could start with immediate effect. A new organisation? The United States has, as recently as 31 October 2023, passed legislation on space debris called the Orbital Sustainability (ORBITS) Act of 2023. According to the US Chair of the Senate Commerce...
April 2025
Azores rising – Portugal’s Atlantic outpost vying to become space gateway
...on a quickly evolving Portuguese legal framework for space activities. Early in 2024, the country passed new space legislation laying the foundations for licensing and regulating launch activities, spaceport operations and associated safety protocols...
07 August 2020
UK space launch sector builds foundation for collaborative future
... Chair of the Scottish Space Leadership Council. “The space industry is therefore keen to seek ways to inform the legislative process and position the UK as a leader in European spaceflight.” According to Innes, the high level of interest and support...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... rather than diverting dangerous space rocks from hitting Earth. With the US enacting this type of legislation other national legislation may well follow and this might have the effect of making space activities more competitive...
