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 ...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
...October 1967. Known colloquially as the Outer Space Treaty (OST), this and the subsequent treaty agreements created a foundation... order was imposed to fetter their ambitions. So the OST appeared to be a good solution. Unfortunately, this international...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
When US President Obama signed a new law into existence in November 2015, it signalled a new direction for commercial space exploration and exploitation. The bill that was signed had ambitious beginnings in the US House of Representatives. That ...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
...’s natural rotation on its axis, and the international legal regime provided by the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST), allows satellites to gather data from, and communicate into, areas of the planet that are either politically...
