March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... to obtain, transport, own, sell and use the resources, all tempered only by reference to ‘applicable’ law - including US domestic and international law. [14] This section is the crux of the Act, giving property rights to space mining operators that...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... and certainly would not be defensible as meeting the Article VI obligations of the United States under international space law. The second area the US legislation failed to address is the concept of ‘non-interference’ contained in the OST, Article...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
...if a German were to commit a crime against an Italian astronaut in a module that was registered to Russia, then German criminal law would be engaged and Germany would have responsibility for criminal jurisdiction. Article 22 (2) then provides for the...
October 2025
High-altitude platforms - the search for an optimised legal framework
... of HAO contingency management must also be integral to any effective consideration of the optimum legal framework. Whereas the law governing use of tropospheric aviation and space vehicle activities is generally treaty-based, the content and purpose...
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... orbit or on the Moon or other celestial bodies. The law of outer space has successfully prevented the expansion of armed conflict...peaceably, on Earth, and by the rule of law. US space law pioneer Eileen Galloway wisely observed that the maintenance ...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
... 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, supervise...
