30 October 2019
Questions surround US top-secret spaceplane mission
...latest mission. This has made some heads turn, as the US has not reported those deployments in its UN Registration Convention submissions, writes Harvard-Smithsonian astronomer Johnathan McDowell, via Twitter. If correct, this would be the first time...
July 2014
The peaceful use of space
... purposes. It was followed by four more treaties: the ‘Rescue Agreement’ (1968); the ‘Liability Convention’ (1972); the ‘Registration Convention’ (1975); and the ‘Moon Agreement’ (1979). The treaties are supplemented by five sets of principles...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
... and minimising orbital debris. Many of these commitments directly implement existing provisions of the OST, the Registration Convention and other international space law, such as ensuring that Artemis cooperation is only for peaceful purposes...
