July 2014
Preventing catastrophic impact
...-term reaction phase is a different matter. A great deal of scientific and technical problems need to be solved. Questions of international law There are numerous important legal issues that need to be overcome in the creation and operation of the...
December 2014
A door closes
... back, in formal remarks and interviews, accusing the US and its western partners of running roughshod over international law and democratic principles in an effort to achieve global hegemony. Meanwhile, no end to the Ukraine crisis is in sight. Many...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... by the USA, particularly by the administration of President George W Bush, which expressed opposition to any normative attempt in international law that would tie US hands in the area of space security. More specifically, the USA and many European...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... the use and exploitation of ISRU materials for Lunar Villages and Mars bases is unlikely to be prohibited by current international law. The USA’s Space Act of 2015 attempts to encourage the peaceful commercial use of materials beyond Earth and...
April 2019
Protecting our lunar legacy
... Now what? These GLXP arrangements worked but they were informal. Formal international regulation, including monitors, will be needed. International law is currently silent on the issue and needs to be engaged to provide a reliable set of protections...
June 2019
The challenge of planetary protection
... is worth noting that the COSPAR Planetary Protection Policy is a set of internationally agreed guidelines and not a legal instrument binding under international law, but the above-mentioned observation by COPUOS in 2017 is important as an indication...
