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 ...
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...
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...
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...
25 September 2020
The Consequential Frontier - Challenging the Privatization of Space
...book looks at the evolution of space towards privatisation, with agencies as ...space privatisation, space tourism, space law and the space environment have been written by space professionals keen to highlight the inadequacies of the Outer Space Treaty...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
...even be legal. She suggested that, under the Outer Space Treaty, any Martian colonists would be regarded as “squatters, or... main steps should be obvious enough: A build-up of commercial space tourism to hotels in low Earth orbit. Between 2001 and 2009...
