...-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...
..., 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...
...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...
...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 ...
... 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...
... 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 ...