August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
... peace, crisis and war to exert influence in, to and from space, and until now has been something that only less than a ..., and the international legal regime provided by the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST), allows satellites to gather data from, and ...
14 October 2020
NASA signs up nations for its Artemis Accords, while Russia shuns Gateway plans
...to build upon the Outer Space Treaty, which subscribes to the peaceful exploration and use of space and celestial bodies, NASA... will be the broadest and most diverse international human space exploration program in history, and the Artemis Accords are...
26 February 2018
Handbook of Space Law
... reveals that “in homage to the collection of nations” that made his 1969 flight possible, he took “copies of the Outer Space Treaty, the UN Declaration of Human Rights and (a bit more self-serving) the Return of Astronauts (‘Rescue’) Agreement” with...
19 May 2021
Nigeria appoints new space agency head
... practices for the people of Nigeria. He said the Space Agency is endowed with the intellectual capacity and capability to...Nigeria a member and signatory on the peaceful uses of Outer Space Treaty and currently has three satellites in the orbit - one ...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... of lunar areas and Mars and the consequences for resource utilisation. Under the United Nations’ 1967 Outer Space Treaty, nations cannot acquire land on celestial bodies. However, it is generally accepted that the use and exploitation of ISRU...
29 March 2018
China's Tiangong-1 space lab is destined for Earth, soon!
... edges spoiling your enjoyment of the find. Secondly, according to the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which provides the basic framework on international space law, a country’s space object is their legal property. Therefore China still has claims...
