... was hailed as a “reference standard for spacefaring nations in guiding compliance with Article IX of the Outer Space Treaty”. Under a later space law treaty, the Rescue and Return Agreement, States are obliged to share information on “conditions...
... internationally. As the IISL states in its December 2015 ‘Position Paper on Space Resource Mining’, the new US Act is ‘a possible interpretation of the Outer Space Treaty. Whether and to what extent this interpretation is shared by other States...
... responsible for acts of its private actors under international space law. The Outer Space Treaty (Article III) also states that general international law is applicable to outer space. Reading Article VI harmoniously with Article III, the general...
... they form the framework and the primary system of global space governance. The foundational agreement of the system is the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which is the most adhered to space treaty. More importantly, it contains several principles that have...
...a new range of issues This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Outer Space Treaty, the primary document of international space law. The Treaty itself contains mainly general provisions governing fundamental rights, responsibilities and obligations...
... Declaration of Human Rights goes on to detail what actually constitutes basic human dignity and rights yet the Outer Space Treaty does not attempt to describe what the ‘benefit of all countries might be or how anyone might go about defining...