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...
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...
19 May 2021
Nigeria appoints new space agency head
...and practices for the people of Nigeria. He said the Space Agency is endowed with the intellectual capacity and capability to... a member and signatory on the peaceful uses of Outer Space Treaty and currently has three satellites in the orbit - one ...
29 March 2018
China's Tiangong-1 space lab is destined for Earth, soon!
... spoiling your enjoyment of the find. Secondly, according to the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which provides the basic framework on international space law, a country’s space object is their legal property. Therefore China still has claims to it, even...
