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 ...
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...
November 2021
Space in support of sustainable development
...By way of background, the Outer Space Treaty 1967 (OST) constitutes the central instrument of the international space law ...the Space 2030 Agenda and UNOOSA’s Space4SDGs. Furthermore, OST Articles X and XI promote “international cooperation” between ...
