29 December 2021
China complains to UN after space station endures 'close encounters' with Starlink satellites
... the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies 1 (the Outer Space Treaty), which provides that “States Parties to the Treaty shall immediately inform the other States Parties to the Treaty or the Secretary-General of the United Nations of any phenomena...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... activity. As both Branson’s and Bezos’ activity occurred within the United States, under Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty it fell upon the Federal Aviation Administration (acting under 51 USC §50905) to license both flights. Given that...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... as the “Wild, Wild, West”. Technology has advanced to a point where the foundational 1967 Outer Space Treaty has become obsolete. The treaty bans weapons of mass destruction, prevents military activity on celestial bodies, and charts peaceful uses...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... internationally. As the IISL states in its December 2015 ‘Position Paper on Space Resource Mining’, the new US Act is ‘a possible interpretation of the Outer Space Treaty. Whether and to what extent this interpretation is shared by other States...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
...law to be considered when dealing with human activity in outer space is international law. The operative international framework is to be found in the Outer Space Treaty (OST) 1967, a treaty of the United Nations to which all of the major spacefaring...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
... International Astronautical Congress on 13 October 2020. Commitments We could not simply hand mission planners a copy of the Outer Space Treaty (OST) and say “follow this” Although the Artemis Accords have been criticised by some commentators and...
