March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... internationally. As the IISL states in its December 2015 ‘Position Paper on Space Resource Mining’, the new US Act is ‘a possible interpretation of the Outer Space Treaty. Whether and to what extent this interpretation is shared by other States...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
... they form the framework and the primary system of global space governance. The foundational agreement of the system is the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which is the most adhered to space treaty. More importantly, it contains several principles that have...
July 2017
Rapidly evolving space industry needs faster UN response
...a new range of issues This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty, the primary document of international space law. The Treaty itself contains mainly general provisions governing fundamental rights, responsibilities and obligations...
February 2019
Chaos and creation – cultural directions for the space industry
... Declaration of Human Rights goes on to detail what actually constitutes basic human dignity and rights yet the Outer Space Treaty does not attempt to describe what the ‘benefit of all countries might be or how anyone might go about defining...
November 2017
Preserving Apollo’s lunar legacy
... be submitted for inclusion in the World Heritage List. And it relies on the concept of sovereignty, anathema to the Outer Space Treaty. State Parties to the Convention are instructed to submit properties within their territory. But the Moon is the...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
... States in interpreting those principles continue to apply to preserve space for the “benefit and in the interests of all countries”, as specified in the Outer Space Treaty, to which virtually all space-faring nations, including the major powers, are...
