March 2016
Space debris conundrum for international law makers
... Treaty declares that any State that has registered a space object shall retain legal and de facto jurisdiction and control over that object. As a piece of space debris is considered a ‘space object’ for legal purposes, even if the State were to lose...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... surveillance and tracking: tracking active and inactive satellites and space debris, collectively known as resident space objects (RSO). The risks imposed by space debris proliferation highlight the need to adequately address the challenges posed...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... probability that they will interfere with each other Although the potential dangers of physical collisions between space objects and the contingent increase in orbital debris is a broad topic of interest across the...
October 2025
The law as a last line of defence when space debris hit home
...the launching State, especially where more than one State is involved, the answer is to look at the Register of Space Objects. By channelling liability through States, individual redress for damage caused, under the current regime, is expensive, time...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
...-energy lasers as part of its ballistic missile defence programme. These could easily be adapted for use against space objects and any state that has reached a reasonable technological level would be capable of acquiring some capacity in this...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
... and debris) 8100 tonnes of space objects in orbit. The number of debris objects estimated by statistical models to be in orbit is: 34,000 objects greater than 10 cm 900,000 objects from 1 cm to 10 cm 130 million objects from 1 mm to 1 cm. Even with...
