... first issue is which country’s jurisdiction space falls into. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty (Article VIII) states that “a State Party to the Treaty on whose registry an object launched into outer space is carried shall retain jurisdiction and control...
... 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...
..., with at least 10 missions scheduled before the end of 2021. International treaties such as the Outer Space Treaty (OST) are clear that no territorial claims can be made in space, but the legality of resource extraction is less clear. This position...
... 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...
... 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...
..., got me thinking about the laws that are applicable in space. Many governments signed the UN Outer Space Treaty (OST) in 1967, but the OST only governs what governments do in space, not private companies. Five decades ago, the thought of a private...