July 2019
Luxembourg’s space legislation
... resources including asteroid mining has drawn a number of private individuals and companies to set up operations there. General space law When applying for authorisation, the identity of all shareholders who hold more than 10 percent of the shares...
February 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
...and practice. Unfinished business While extracting resources from celestial bodies may be fundamentally legal under international space law, other provisions of the OST must be complied with, and sadly, the US legislation ignores both. First, Article...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
...firm. He is a seasoned civil and criminal defence litigator, with an LL.M in space law and is currently co-chair of the Space Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law. The views expressed in this article are those of the author...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... far more familiar solution, is to adopt a ‘spatialist’ approach by choosing a specific altitude as the point where air law ends and space law begins. The second, competing idea is to consider the purpose or intention of a craft at the material time...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... has been widely ratified by nations24 and is recognised as providing the central trunk of space law. From this early formulation of space law there was a well-defined acceptance by states concerning the prohibition of national appropriation of outer...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
... Gorove, S. (1991), Draft Convention on Manned Space Flight, German Journal of Air and Space Law p.3-8 10 Abeyratne, R. (2004), Space Tourism - Parallel Synergies between Air and Space Law? German Journal of Air and Space Law p.184-202 11 Abeyratne...
