January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... when it does not work.” [Neufeld, Cold War - but no war - in space] The political reality of outer space is at odds with the spirit of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty Spacepower has gone from warning and targeting systems in nuclear war...
05 November 2015
Colonizing Mars – the legal way
...-Misra write in the Guardian, “The absolute restriction on sovereign claims by the non-appropriation principle [in the Outer Space Treaty of 1967] could lead to future conflict.” How to work to resolve this? Well, as Burns and Haqq-Misra rightly...
August 2016
High-resolution Earth observation data is changing the character of war
... peace, crisis and war to exert influence in, to and from space, and until now has been something that only less than a ...and the international legal regime provided by the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST), allows satellites to gather data from, and ...
05 February 2020
Legal action could be used to stop Starlink ruining the night say astronomers
... a member of one human family.” The astronomers point out that according to the Outer Space Treaty, only governments can operate in outer space. As such, it is the US government that is responsible for the harm caused by SpaceX’s satellites in orbit...
14 October 2020
NASA signs up nations for its Artemis Accords, while Russia shuns Gateway plans
... build upon the Outer Space Treaty, which subscribes to the peaceful exploration and use of space and celestial bodies, NASA ... will be the broadest and most diverse international human space exploration program in history, and the Artemis Accords are...
26 February 2018
Handbook of Space Law
...astronaut I never expected to be interested in, let alone involved in, space law,” he admits. “But that was back when I was ...his 1969 flight possible, he took “copies of the Outer Space Treaty, the UN Declaration of Human Rights and (a bit more self...
