July 2014
In search of strategic stability
... has affected relations in space too. On 2 April NASA announced that, “given Russia’s on-going violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, NASA is suspending the majority of its on-going engagements with the Russian Federation...
March 2016
Future space is challenge for international law
... namely: ‘Outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means’. The use of the definition ‘national’ in the above provision...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... II ‘Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.’ Mining an asteroid Despite these provisions there are at least...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
... of space tourism. There are, however, difficulties with simply transposing this to space activity. The nature of sovereignty and the apportionment of liability in international space law is fundamentally different to that adopted in aviation law...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... any state policy or geopolitical goals. The VOC’s empire was essentially private, under a thin membrane of state sovereignty, only accountable to the government in an abstract sense. Dutch Viceroys were not ruling in the name of a monarch or a court...
May 2017
Humanity is moving towards a new reality
... law’ obligations of the US. Already some have claimed that authorising such space mining activity is tantamount to a claim of sovereignty over the celestial body where the extraction would take place. Those proposing to undertake this type...
