February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
..., AstroAgency, and it draws a large and diverse crowd from all aspects of the space industry - CubeSat developers, university researchers, space law and finance professionals, quantum software designers, solutions architects, robotics experts and...
31 July 2019
Satellite-Based Earth Observation: Trends and Challenges for Economy and Society
... with respect to the rights of employees. The respective analyses emerge from both international and national space law, with an emphasis on the relevant European action (INSPIRE Directive, Copernicus). This book constitutes a successful effort...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
...and practice. Unfinished business While extracting resources from celestial bodies may be fundamentally legal under international space law, other provisions of the OST must be complied with, and sadly, the US legislation ignores both. First, Article...
January 2018
NASA’s space police wield full force of law
...firm. He is a seasoned civil and criminal defence litigator, with an LL.M in space law and is currently co-chair of the Space Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law. The views expressed in this article are those of the author...
July 2019
Luxembourg’s space legislation
... resources including asteroid mining has drawn a number of private individuals and companies to set up operations there. General space law When applying for authorisation, the identity of all shareholders who hold more than 10 percent of the shares...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... has been widely ratified by nations24 and is recognised as providing the central trunk of space law. From this early formulation of space law there was a well-defined acceptance by states concerning the prohibition of national appropriation of outer...
