July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
...rather than the definitive last word on the regulation of space activities within the UK The central trunk of international space law is the Outer Space Treaty 1967. That treaty places requirements on individual signatory States to authorise, licence...
May 2019
Active debris removal faces legal minefield
.... 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, “a State...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... Age, the spacefaring nations conducted operations according to their own rules or their interpretation of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. As a result, space and the Earth’s orbital regimes were treated as a vast and unlimited resource, and both GEO...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
... have predicated doubts over the continuing utility of the longstanding international legal framework in space, founded around the terms of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which has governed the conduct and activities of United Nations member states...
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...
June 2022
Patent protection for space manufacturing
... patent system to its limits. Jurisdiction of space The first issue is which country’s jurisdiction space falls into. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty (Article VIII) states that “a State Party to the Treaty on whose registry an object launched into outer...
