March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... ‘by means of use or occupation, or by any other means’, [18] then these activities would stand in stark opposition to decades of legal protection for the space environment. In contrast, the United States seems to be operating under the notion that...
February 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
...scholars strove to focus debate on these issues before widespread development of outer space could establish customary international legal precedent that carried national conflicts into space. [6] Even before humans left the surface of Earth, lawyers...
May 2017
Future space applications and their regulatory needs
... practical decisionmaking and conflict resolution Existing space legal structures, including liability, must be reconsidered .... We need new ideas, new technologies, new markets, new legal and policy structures, and new ways of cooperating. The future ...
04 November 2015
Colonizing Mars – the legal way
...on Mars continue to grow and expand – but some legal experts have words of caution. NASA, for example, ...all expressed this aim. Still, experts point out that a number of legal ambiguities must be resolved before the first human being sets foot on Mars...
March 2016
Space debris conundrum for international law makers
...expressed a right to abandon their non-functional satellites in space. This sheds severe doubt on the possibility of introducing a legal regime of ‘salvage’, similar to maritime law, whereby actors other than the State of registry could freely remove...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
... minerals but proposes a modus which would allow a fair and satisfying use of space resources. If we follow current legal framework, we encounter an imperative ‘non-appropriation” principle, as well as the principle for using outer space for peaceful...
