July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
... they are doing and where. It is worth keeping in mind what the Accords are about: civil space activities. Security operations in space have their own rules, and don’t often raise the same novel challenges posed by human...
August 2021
Collision avoidance – time for agreement on space sustainability
..., drafted at the height of the Cold War when space activity was the preserve of two superpowers, the United States ...ownership of these principles. The changing of behaviours in space activity and the move towards an underpinning value-system based on...
August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
...Russian-built Soyuz rocket from the French and European spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre in December 2020. AI revolution in space Space activities could ultimately be carried out by avatar-robots controlled by humans on Earth or in orbit around the...
May 2024
Could ICAO be a NewSpace regulator?
... the best way to get out of this imbroglio is to give authority to ICAO to make binding regulations for commercial space activities. About the author Dr Sanat Kaul worked in India’s administrative service in the Ministry of Civil Aviation and was...
October 2024
International space law - the beginning of the end?
... with other appropriate international, regional and local institutions and the private sector. Every aspect of each space activity or space-related issue need not be regulated by binding international treaties, but it is equally true that every such...
July 2014
Achilles’ heel
...being addressed through the EU International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities.5 National and international treaties and intelligence sharing, such as the Space Situational Awareness Programme, must be improved as it forms a central backbone...
