February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... PPWT, which would forbid the deployment of weapons in outer space. According to Russian and Chinese supporting statements, such a treaty would reinforce Article IV of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which only forbids the deployment of weapons of mass...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
...for extraterrestrial life It is important to understand the legal and policy background. Article IX of the Outer Space Treaty (OST) of 1967 addresses the avoidance of harmful contamination of celestial bodies (forward contamination) and the avoidance...
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...
October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
... This Declaration adopts the basic precedents of such documents as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Outer Space Treaty and other applicable historic credos, while articulating the new reality of an open frontier that is owned by no one...
October 2025
The law as a last line of defence when space debris hit home
... for damages. Registration also ensures that States maintain jurisdiction and control over that space object (Art VIII Outer Space Treaty). In this case, the exposed pallet housing the batteries was registered to Japan, with JAXA...
