March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
... forth in the present Treaty’. Nothing is said about the essence, scope, boundaries of and requirements for private space activities. However, the said Article VI also stipulates that states shall authorise and continuously supervise non-governmental...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
... Poland. Supplementary responsibilities of POLSA are keeping in contact with institutions conducting space activities in the world, monitoring the development of space activities in Poland and the world, or leading initiatives to promote and support...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
... developing within Australia for more than a decade - that the legislation administered by the department, namely the Space Activities Act 1998 and its subordinate legislation, is not adapted to providing “the right conditions for entrepreneurs and...
October 2017
Can Australia’s space industry overcome years of political setback?
...as Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. Continued maintenance of these stations has contributed to the evolution of Australia’s role in international space activities. The 1960s were also defi ned by the Australian government’s ratifi cation of the 1967 Outer...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
... debris. First, the principle of non-intervention, as part of general international law, applies to outer space activities in virtue of Article III of the Outer Space Treaty (OST). What is more, according to sentence one of Article VIII of the OST...
January 2020
Rule of law vital for humanity’s sustainability and survival
... and expand globally in the coming years. There are serious and feasible plans for a range of proposed space activities, from launching constellations of thousands of small satellites and operation of transportation systems for safe and convenient...
