August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... Parties and with concurrence of the majority. About the author Upasana Dasgupta is a PhD candidate in law at the Faculty of Law and the Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University. Her doctoral thesis deals with preventing collisions in outer...
November 2021
Space in support of sustainable development
...framework that their influence will extend to the use of space by States. By way of background, the Outer Space Treaty 1967 (OST) constitutes the central instrument of the international space law framework. The central aim of Article I, regarding the...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
... realistic and obtainable possible courses of action, through such means as: Looking to ‘new model’ national space laws (such as the French Operations Space Act and its mandated observance of the 25 year de-orbit rule) Examining codes of conduct and...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
... the United Nations and other international forums to discuss the relationship between their respective domestic laws. For years the space law community debated whether the OST permitted a private company to own resources it obtained from an asteroid...
May 2017
World needs strong space governance system
.... About the authors Prof Dr Ram S. Jakhu is the Director of the Institute of Air and Space Law and the Centre for Research in Air and Space Law of McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He possesses professional experience of over 30 years in the field...
February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
...and is increasingly worth considering, is for insurers to salvage the satellites. Though salvage is problematic under space law, under space insurance it functions according to the explicit terms of the policy. Technical possibilities in that respect...
