May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
.... She has received numerous fellowships and awards, including the World Champions Award of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition 2016. The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... Behnken familiarise themselves with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, prior to the Demo-2 flight test. Space law and health governance The United Nations space law treaties do not specifically address matters of public health. Even so, in 1959, the predecessor...
May 2020
An ethical code for living in space
...who can encourage or even force the implementation of the code under law (i.e. the UN, EU and individual countries). Proposal The implementation of a code of ethics for activity in space is crucial to all humanity before we organise and carry out any...
08 March 2022
Space law project receives significant boost
... has already spilled over into the space world and so international space law will assume every greater importance in the... neutral, objective and evidence-based knowledge on international space law. In addition to the involvement and endorsement of ...
June 2022
Patent protection for space manufacturing
... return that product to Earth. Discussions of the applicability of patent law to space have typically focused on concepts of devising an invention in space or using a patented product in space The matter seems even more pressing, because the concept...
October 2020
Is NASA’s Artemis Accords agreement Moon-proof?
... both for research and commercial purposes. The wording ‘peaceful exploration of outer space’, it says, is not against mining per se. Aviation and maritime law Aviation law only talks of sovereignty over the airspace of a nation and leaves the...
