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...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... areas and Mars and the consequences for resource utilisation. Under the United Nations’ 1967 Outer Space Treaty, nations cannot acquire land on celestial bodies. However, it is generally accepted that the use and exploitation of ISRU...
30 October 2019
Questions surround US top-secret spaceplane mission
... the UN in 1974, the Convention is based on the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which is regarded as the basic international law of space, and requires that all objects launched into space must be registered “to the greatest extent feasible and practicable...
