September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
... Artemis Accords framework is a non-binding bilateral agreement established by NASA and the USA State Department....the Accords are said to be “grounded” in the OST and the Moon Agreement, but the Accords are not a United Nations product but a product...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
...from Article 11 (paragraph five) of the 1979 Moon Agreement, which declares that practical exploitation of extra-terrestrial... these deliberations will take place due to the fact that the Moon Agreement is not as popular as the OST and the other space ...
October 2024
International space law - the beginning of the end?
...of some major spacefaring nations has started a contradictory trend. Within a few years of the negotiation of the Moon Agreement in 1979, developments in the space sector indicated a move towards the exclusive interests of some States. Space activity...
July 2014
The peaceful use of space
... in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, conventionally known as the Outer Space...1972); the ‘Registration Convention’ (1975); and the ‘Moon Agreement’ (1979). The treaties are supplemented by five sets...
September 2023
Space sustainability and the global commons
... means of use or occupation, or by any other means but it leaves it to the Moon Agreement to set out an International Regime for commercial uses of resources from the Moon and other celestial bodies. A level playing field Sustainability has not only...
August 2018
Ever-changing views on space resource utilisation
...commercial activities. Nevertheless, the ‘prophetic’ mention of the Moon Agreement, albeit not ratified by any major space-faring nation...react, but it can be argued that abandoning the Moon Agreement presumes that each country is looking at this issue...
