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...
September 2023
Space sustainability and the global commons
... way than the diplomatic language of UN Member States would allow. Space mining: when it comes to the exploration and use of space, the Outer Space Treaty says that space is the province of all mankind and is not subject to national appropriation...
01 April 2025
The New World on Mars - What we can Create on the Red Planet
... of any form of restriction, from environmental protection to the Outer Space Treaty. Having staked the warning notice, I should add that this book is a great read for space fans and anyone else who thinks our destiny is to conquer...
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...
