September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
...-governmental use of outer space - but as speakers at the recent Manfred-Lachs conference in Montreal, Canada, noted, the OST just did not foresee outer space as an area destined for commercial exploitation. The US Space Act is therefore...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
..., under the definition of a ‘space object’. The author aligns with the view that Article VIII of the OST gives a clear answer to this question, implying that abandonment cannot exist in outer space and that even...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
...first port of call is the Outer Space Treaty (OST). View from above - Virgin Galactic’s Vice President of Government...), neither of which takes the discussion any further forward. As the OST was written at the height of the Cold War, those drafting it...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
...law that has widespread acceptance is the Outer Space Treaty (OST). The so-called Moon Treaty has only a few signatories ...use of nuclear systems in space. The most relevant parts of the OST are Articles I and II. Article I ‘The exploration and use of ...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
... rights to extracted resources. Luxembourg followed suit. The broader international community is not so sure. Citing verbiage in the OST that declares space to be the ‘province of all mankind’, some believe any profits from the utilisation of space...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... the 2030s: HabEx, LUVOIR and Origins Space Telescope (OST) will be able to detect not just chemical equilibrium ...and oxygen, but test for multicellularity and technosignatures as well. OST and HabEx would be able to characterise one to two dozen ...
