August 2016
National legislation provides incentives for private business
...designed to fit within and be a part of the surrounding desert landscape. Private firms could see non-regulation of space activities (or certain parts of a space activity) as beneficial as it may lower administrative, technical, and financial burdens...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
... facets of space exploration and utilisation. This is largely due to the approach taken by the US government to support and regulate private investment in space under the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, wherein launch standards are based...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
... examining the origins of the SIA, it is possible to identify a number of reasons why the UK government decided to revisit the regulation of UK space activity. First, there has been a significant shift in the nature of the satellite market, the bread...
October 2025
High-altitude platforms - the search for an optimised legal framework
... need to assign a clearer legal and regulatory structure to its management and control. Whether the form of that regulation should be an adaptation of extant space treaty law or developed along more fundamentally nationalistic lines will be the issue...
October 2024
International space law - the beginning of the end?
... the other, has made it impossible for the negotiation, let alone adoption, of a subsequent international treaty on the regulation of outer space. Persistent geopolitical differences between Russia and the US, and more recently with People’s Republic...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... about to change. Light pollution Visual pollution from commercial space typifies the dilemmas faced when trying to regulate contemporary space activity As LEO becomes ever more congested and exploited, human activity in space is increasingly visible...
