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 ...
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...
30 October 2019
Questions surround US top-secret spaceplane mission
... the UN in 1974, the Convention is based on the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which is regarded as the basic international law of space, and requires that all objects launched into space must be registered “to the greatest extent feasible and practicable...
