01 April 2025
Who Owns Outer Space?
... call ‘non-trivial’. For decades, the answer has been “no-one”, because the 1967 Outer Space Treaty prohibits national appropriation and declares space to be the “province of mankind”. But those words were written more than half a century...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... that the prospects for the future use of outer space offer both tremendous opportunities and challenges, whilst international...many regard this as flying in the face of the Outer Space Treaty. The ‘non-military versus non-aggressive’ debate regarding...
11 October 2018
Commercial Uses of Space and Space Tourism: legal and policy aspects
... (thankfully in this multi-author tome) a decent index. Although the book includes the inevitable background on the Outer Space Treaty and the spaceflight liability regime, it covers present-day concerns about large satellite constellations and...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
..., the United States’ government is walking a fine line in avoiding Article II of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 (OST), which banned the appropriation of ‘celestial bodies’. It is true that Article IV of the OST states that ...
February 2021
Supporting sustainable lunar development
... but instead can evolve from the bottom up and adapt to changing circumstances. It supports the existing 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST), helping prevent territorial appropriation of the Moon and promoting international cooperation. It also aligns well...
November 2018
Pole star rising
...July 2017 a draft law on space activity and the national space objects register was published by the government. While enacting a space law is undoubtedly an obligation for Poland as a state party to the Outer Space Treaty, more important is that the...
