April 2024
The promise of solar energy for sustainable development and space exploration
...and operation of SBS imply diverse technical challenges in terms of cost and the technology utilised. In addition, from a legal perspective, the deployment of such systems requires an understanding of how, inter alia, space law, environmental law and...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
...which I term ‘astropolitics’, something which would need to encompass not just major aspects of international relationships but legal matters on a much more human scale, including, for example, defining who would be responsible for trying, convicting...
July 2017
Rapidly evolving space industry needs faster UN response
.... It is therefore understandable that finding common grounds and similar mind sets between the diplomatic, political and legal nature of COPUOS with economics, business and industry related ambitions of private and commercial space community is not...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
...possession of a controlled space resource. About the author George Anthony Long is the Managing Member of Legal Parallax, LLC, a legal consultancy firm. He is a seasoned civil and criminal defence litigator, with an LL.M in space law and is currently...
May 2018
Why national space laws on the exploitation of resources of celestial bodies contradict international law
...of states are not in line with the legal nature of outer space as a legal common, which means that outer space and ...international order or at least the structure of an international legal order for the exploitation of resources of celestial bodies. ...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
..., and more importantly, international regulatory mechanisms to resolve the problem of space debris. I propose that a new international legal order for outer space should also recognise that reckless and intentional creation of space debris is a crime...
