January 2018
Space nation's first orbiting satellite
... scope of the boundaries of exisiting legislation, such as the Outer Space Treaty which was ratified in 1967. Freedom of exploration and the use of outer space is not only allowed by the Treaty (and the 1963 Declaration of Legal Principles Governing...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
...rather than the definitive last word on the regulation of space activities within the UK The central trunk of international space law is the Outer Space Treaty 1967. That treaty places requirements on individual signatory States to authorise, licence...
October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
... Universe’. This Declaration adopts the basic precedents of such documents as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Outer Space Treaty and other applicable historic credos, while articulating the new reality of an open frontier that is owned...
03 February 2018
The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Outer Space Activities
... other celestial bodies has been under discussion, by space lawyers at least, since the signing of the Outer Space Treaty in 1967; the typical answer has always been ‘no-one owns outer space’ because it is part of the ‘heritage of mankind’. This view...
05 August 2019
Weaponised satellites to be part of new space force says France
... personnel on 26 July. The minister did emphasise however that France has no intention of violating the international Outer Space Treaty of 1967 which prohibits the testing of weapons of mass destruction or nuclear weapons in orbit. Neither do they...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... Age, the spacefaring nations conducted operations according to their own rules or their interpretation of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. As a result, space and the Earth’s orbital regimes were treated as a vast and unlimited resource, and both GEO...
