...removed, has been edited and amended for standalone publication. About the author Dr Bleddyn Bowen is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Leicester, an expert in strategy, space warfare and the military uses of outer space, and...
... to complex issues of registration and state responsibility and liability in the course of space activities. The main task of international space law since its inception was to ensure free, unimpeded and nondiscriminatory access of mankind into space...
... satellite to reach orbit, Dongfanghong-1, on 24 April 1970, a date that has since become China’s official ‘Space Day’. International cooperation in the programme’s first two decades was primarily technology transfer from countries such as the Soviet...
... and other important legal issues related to debris and active debris removal, various States, legal scholars, international organisations and non-governmental organisations have called for a new, binding treaty on space debris, or for clarifying...
... joined the European Space Agency’s Astronaut Corps in January 2000 and made his first spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2002 in support of the Odissea mission. He served as a flight engineer and conducted 23 experiments in life...
... and subject-matter experts are addressing the adequacy and inadequacy of current rules of international space law, public international law, and international humanitarian law with respect to conflict avoidance in outer space. The current edition...