October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... its natural resources as “the common heritage of all mankind”, failed to be ratified by any major space-faring nation. Currently the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) coordinates these treaties and other questions...
September 2023
India signs up to the Artemis Accords
... in essence would be identical, but politically transformed with a new name and placed under the auspices of the United Nations. That is a real possibility albeit a remote one at the present. About the author Gurbir Singh is a UK-based cyber...
29 December 2021
China complains to UN after space station endures 'close encounters' with Starlink satellites
... collision between the two spacecraft. In view of the foregoing, China wishes to request the Secretary-General of the United Nations to circulate the above-mentioned information to all States parties to the Outer Space Treaty and bring to their...
December 2014
A door closes
...-Americanism has flourished in Russia, with Kremlin support. The mutual estrangement was on vivid display at the United Nations General Assembly annual debate in late September 2014. President Obama placed Russia, because of its “aggression” against...
October 2024
International space law - the beginning of the end?
... are seen as the preferred mode of norm-making. Recently, there have also been attempts at circumventing the United Nations process of law-making and an alarming trend of unilateral actions of some advanced spacefaring States, often to the detriment...
July 2019
Aggression in outer space – time for action
... in the space industry, including as Director General of the French space agency CNES (1997- 2002), chairman of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, UN COPUOS (June 2006 to June 2008), and an expert member of the...
