January 2023
Space sustainability imperative
..., it is the big spacefaring nations that are taking up all the space in space. Space cannot be locked up just by 11 launching states. The other 135 signatories to the Outer Space Treaty should also have an opportunity to benefit from that environment...
01 April 2025
Who Owns Outer Space?
... call ‘non-trivial’. For decades, the answer has been “no-one”, because the 1967 Outer Space Treaty prohibits national appropriation and declares space to be the “province of mankind”. But those words were written more than half a century...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... that the prospects for the future use of outer space offer both tremendous opportunities and challenges, whilst international...many regard this as flying in the face of the Outer Space Treaty. The ‘non-military versus non-aggressive’ debate regarding...
12 October 2016
‘Asgardia’ to become the first new Space Nation
... their scientific aspirations is exciting.” Under current international space law, including the widely adopted ‘Outer Space Treaty’, states are required to authorise and supervise national space activities, including the activities of commercial and...
30 May 2018
China opens up its space station to the world
... not only to China, but also to the world. Just as the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 proclaimed, the exploration and use of outer space shall be a common province for humankind. Outer space should become a new domain for promoting the common interests...
11 October 2018
Commercial Uses of Space and Space Tourism: legal and policy aspects
... (thankfully in this multi-author tome) a decent index. Although the book includes the inevitable background on the Outer Space Treaty and the spaceflight liability regime, it covers present-day concerns about large satellite constellations and...
