Articles tagged: air-space boundary

• September 2021 Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism

  ...stable legal environment The legal sub-committee of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS) has had the air-space boundary issue as a standing agenda item for several years, but no resolution seems to be in sight. Part of the...

  • air-space boundary
  • commercial space
  • recreational space
  • space tourism
  Authors: Christopher J. Newman    
• July 2018 Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability

  ... for these craft, rather it will augment the regulation of airspace up to the air/space boundary. The SIA, therefore utilises the existing frameworks for governing both space and airspace in a twin track approach to regulation. The first regulatory...

  • launch
  • SIA
  • space activity
  • Space Industry Act
  • Spaceport
  Authors: Christopher J. Newman