January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... place of military exploitation and economic competition since satellites began flying above the atmosphere. The ‘militarisation of space’ is not a new trend in world politics in the 21st century – it is a long-established historical fact and present...
October 2025
High-altitude platforms - the search for an optimised legal framework
... to earlier, but also that the law governing prospective future use of the space such systems will occupy needs to combine acceptance of the militarisation of space and the need for effective defence of related assets with facilitation of the...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... year, China and Russia have made tremendous efforts to establish space forces and expand space weapons capabilities, contributing to the increased militarisation of space. Both countries have active counterspace programmes and have developed robust...
19 September 2023
A Research
... mutually peer-reviewed) chapters cover everything from space law and international cooperation to the use of space resources and the militarisation of space – indeed, everything you’d expect from a book on space policy. The overall aim of the text...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... of Earth, lawyers and politicians worried about what, and whose, laws would apply to outer space This was especially true concerning the militarisation of space, since the same vehicles which were being developed to loft probes into...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... flying in loose formation some 500 km above Earth - a more institutional form of space traffic management might now be required. The militarisation of space is therefore a given, notwithstanding that many regard this as flying in the face of the...
