March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... Article II: Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means. The Apollo Moon landings brought back 842 pounds of lunar...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... ‘Outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claims of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by other means’. The most prohibitive interpretation of this Article would suggest all...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... and since prevailing space legislation, particularly Article I and II of the Outer Space Treaty 1967, forbid claims to sovereignty in space, it would seem to make sense to drop the Westphalian concept of nation states on Earth before reaching out...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
... in which each State is permitted, by the principle of State sovereignty, to decide freely”. It also held that it is wrongful ...visible at centre. This means that the State exercises sovereignty over its registered space object. Therefore, since it ...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... US companies ownership of anything they bring back from space, while maintaining that the US does not assert sovereignty over or ownership of the celestial bodies themselves. This approach appears to be influencing others - Luxembourg has adopted...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
...are sovereign over their airspace and can enforce that sovereignty. From the Chicago Convention of 1944, through to..., to specify an upper limit beyond which they can enforce sovereignty and prevent overflight. Additionally, there is no uniform, let ...
