05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
...individual a member of one human family.” The astronomers point out that according to the Outer Space Treaty, only governments can operate in outer space. As such, it is the US government that is responsible for the harm caused by SpaceX’s satellites...
01 April 2025
The New World on Mars - What we can Create on the Red Planet
... opposer of any form of restriction, from environmental protection to the Outer Space Treaty. Having staked the warning notice, I should add that this book is a great read for space fans and anyone else who thinks our destiny is to conquer...
April 2025
Space sustainability and the role of space situational awareness
... and data-sharing among nations and operators. Current space sustainability efforts rely on the United Nations’ Outer Space Treaty of 1963, containing relevant international space law regulations. The framework states in Article IX that parties...
September 2025
Why the global space sector needs urgent regulation
... like the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) and the Outer Space Treaty are vital but slow moving, often hampered by geopolitical gridlock. Space health Just as the race for space is opening up an urgent debris problem that needs...
05 November 2015
Colonizing Mars – the legal way
... Haqq-Misra write in the Guardian, “The absolute restriction on sovereign claims by the non-appropriation principle [in the Outer Space Treaty of 1967] could lead to future conflict.” How to work to resolve this? Well, as Burns and Haqq-Misra rightly...
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 ...
