October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
... Universe’. This Declaration adopts the basic precedents of such documents as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Outer Space Treaty and other applicable historic credos, while articulating the new reality of an open frontier that is owned...
June 2022
Patent protection for space manufacturing
... first issue is which country’s jurisdiction space falls into. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty (Article VIII) states that “a State Party to the Treaty on whose registry an object launched into outer space is carried shall retain jurisdiction and control...
April 2021
Managing the Moon - a model for engaging with planetary environments
..., with at least 10 missions scheduled before the end of 2021. International treaties such as the Outer Space Treaty (OST) are clear that no territorial claims can be made in space, but the legality of resource extraction is less clear. This position...
05 August 2019
Weaponised satellites to be part of new space force says France
... personnel on 26 July. The minister did emphasise however that France has no intention of violating the international Outer Space Treaty of 1967 which prohibits the testing of weapons of mass destruction or nuclear weapons in orbit. Neither do they...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... Age, the spacefaring nations conducted operations according to their own rules or their interpretation of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. As a result, space and the Earth’s orbital regimes were treated as a vast and unlimited resource, and both GEO...
February 2022
A new legal system for space
..., got me thinking about the laws that are applicable in space. Many governments signed the UN Outer Space Treaty (OST) in 1967, but the OST only governs what governments do in space, not private companies. Five decades ago, the thought of a private...
