space law
4S Symposium (Small Satellites Systems and Services)
What’s up? is the special topic of the 4S 2020 Symposium (Small Satellites Systems and Services) taking place in Vilamoura, Portugal. The recent development of drones and high-altitude aerial platforms have opened up new…
Small Satellites 2020
SMi Group are proud to announce the Small Satellites Conference taking place in London on the 27th and 28th April 2020.
With nations around the world developing their small satellites capability at pace, governments and trans-national agenc…
Practitioners’ Forum
The European Centre for Space Law (ECSL) has been organising a one-day Practitioners’ Forum every year since 1992. The aim of the Forum is to provide those working across all areas of the space sector an opportunity to network and discuss to…
Op-ed | Where does space begin? The decades-long legal mission to find the border between air and space
No one at present can say with certainty – from a legal perspective – where the “Earth” ends and where “outer space” begins.
Congress Defends Commercial Space Bill’s Resource Rights Provisions
With the biggest commercial space bill in more than a decade now signed into law, members of Congress and their staffs are now turning their attention to reports required by the new law as well as other legislation.
Op-ed | One Small Step for Space Resources
In the 1970s, Barry “Moon Man” McArdle sold lunar real estate for $1 per acre, with the caveat that rights were not yet secured. The space resources legislation President Obama just signed into law includes a similar proviso.
