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...
February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
... on a global scale The role of JTC5 - the Joint Technical Committee for space - entails developing a set of coherent standards covering space activities, both for space-based objects and the utilisation of signals (both natural and artificial) for...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... for successful colonisation. Values and principles Technological advancements and the lowering cost of space activities associated with the Space 2.0 revolution will give rise to novel and unanticipated human rights concerns, existent in an era...
June 2021
The next ‘unthinkable’ – global disruption from a solar storm
... charged particles. Even if such radiation cannot directly reach humans on Earth, it can harm humans involved in orbital space activities and can also disturb the areas through which high frequency radio communication travels. During a solar...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... Recreational spaceflight This discussion has only sought to address two of the more discussed legal elements of human space activity. There are still issues of how to classify and register truly hybrid craft such as single-stage-to-orbit...
