April 2018
Developing Mars
... authority for space activities. Certification will remove legal uncertainties. For example, certification transfers responsibility for...in place the ISRU consortium will have technical, legal and financial standing to create a mining consortium and...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
...contribution to the conservation task, but it carries no legal weight. It does not even imply obligations for ...future US lunar operators, let alone any international regulatory agreement. Legally, at present, there are no protections for any of the...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... a set of internationally agreed guidelines and not a legal instrument binding under international law, but the above-mentioned... on Planetary Protection, and is in the Policy and Legal Affairs Section, Office for Outer Space Affairs, United Nations...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
...that it will not occur. The world must be ready and possess the legal and policy tools to respond, and do so rapidly, to prevent any ...WHO and its IHR provide the only global policy and legal framework to unite the world in dealing with any future...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
...this and the subsequent treaty agreements created a foundation for a legal system in space that was broadly accepted at the time. ...sole preserve of the two superpowers and that some form of legal order was imposed to fetter their ambitions. So the OST...
December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
... be the province of all mankind”. While this is more of an ethical statement than an applicable legal one, we can safely say that the legal significance is to declare space as an inclusive environment, free from predatory, quasi-colonialist behaviour...
