March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
...? Finally, how is agreement reached? This is the network, I believe, where law has a major role to fulfill as legal issues must be plentiful. Societal network If it is reasonable to assume that a society as a whole has a particular agenda - what...
January 2021
What it takes to be a space entrepreneur
... get strangers to back them. “It’s always fascinated me”, he says, “all the systems, all the processes, all the legalities… I’ve been very lucky because it’s also been the cornerstone of my career”. ROOM’s US editor Amanda Miller chatted via...
February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
... according to the explicit terms of the policy. Technical possibilities in that respect could go hand in hand with the legal obligations imposed on operators to remove a wreck from orbit (as part of a space debris removal scheme). This, in turn, may...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
... On the Values Frontier: Ethics and Criminal Conduct in Outer Space. In: ECSL, ESA, UNESCO Joint Symposium on the Legal and ethical framework for astronauts in space sojourns. [online] Paris: UNESCO, pp.79-81. Available at: http://unesdoc.unesco.org...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
...closely with senior policymakers as they shape US space policy. Gabriel Swiney is the head of the US Delegation to the Legal Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN COPUOS). He is one of the authors of the...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
... commercial aspects of the problem , when the public law aspect should be a priority on the supra-national level. Legal complications It is alarming if the freedom of exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes can be disregarded when...
