29 March 2018
China's Tiangong-1 space lab is destined for Earth, soon!
... edges spoiling your enjoyment of the find. Secondly, according to the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which provides the basic framework on international space law, a country’s space object is their legal property. Therefore China still has claims...
30 October 2019
Questions surround US top-secret spaceplane mission
... the UN in 1974, the Convention is based on the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which is regarded as the basic international law of space, and requires that all objects launched into space must be registered “to the greatest extent feasible and practicable...
25 September 2020
The Consequential Frontier - Challenging the Privatization of Space
...book looks at the evolution of space towards privatisation, with agencies as ...space privatisation, space tourism, space law and the space environment have been written by space professionals keen to highlight the inadequacies of the Outer Space Treaty...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... even be legal. She suggested that, under the Outer Space Treaty, any Martian colonists would be regarded as “squatters,... main steps should be obvious enough: A build-up of commercial space tourism to hotels in low Earth orbit. Between 2001 and 2009...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
... are working on initiatives in all of these areas. Legal framework The 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST) provides the framework by which all nations utilise and operate in space. The OST is an incredibly forward-thinking document that has kept...
September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
...strong pillars of NewSpace is the dynamism around integrating space-based products and services into traditional industries such as...launch authorisation of spacecraft in line with the Outer Space Treaty (especially when a foreign launcher is procured ...
