01 April 2025
Who Owns Outer Space?
... ‘non-trivial’. For decades, the answer has been “no-one”, because the 1967 Outer Space Treaty prohibits national appropriation and declares space to be the “province of mankind”. But those words were written more than half a century...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
... are currently a topic of hot debate. The Outer Space Treaty (OST) is the only international agreement governing space activities that has been signed by the relevant space capable nations. It prohibits claims of national sovereignty over celestial...
April 2019
The changing economics of space
... clear, although the obligation on 104 signatory nations has been in place since the United Nations Outer Space Treaty of 1967. However, as long as there is any uncertainty over who created the debris there will be controversy over...
August 2016
Commercial space development spurs trend for public-private collaboration
... the need to identify and protect us from objects in space that could obliterate life on Earth. All of the aforementioned...framework The 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST) provides the framework by which all nations utilise and operate in space. The OST is ...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
..., the United States’ government is walking a fine line in avoiding Article II of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 (OST), which banned the appropriation of ‘celestial bodies’. It is true that Article IV of the OST states that ...
May 2017
Will international space law struggle to remain relevant?
... regard this as flying in the face of the Outer Space Treaty. The ‘non-military versus non-aggressive’ debate regarding the... more traditional forms of spaceflight? United States’ military Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) spacecraft in support of...
