The fast-paced development of space tech has created new use cases, which can no longer be effectively addressed by the existing international laws. But is it a bottleneck for the industry?
Thanks for the article. As a rocket scientist I hate dealing with legal issues, while as VC I understand the importance of it. I’m happy that at least someone is working on it:) by the way satellite imaging can help to get insights on your competitors for example you can measure occupation rate of parking lots and forecast the revenue of retail companies. Curious how we treat this situation from legal perspective:)
For shame: You left out the most important element of all: planetary protection. Article X1 of the 1967 outer space treaty declared that spacefaring nations must prevent the spread or contamination of extraterrestrial pathogens to planet earth. And that forward contamination for outbound missions to the Moon, Mars and other heavenly bodies must be prevented. Article X1 is what prompted NASA to institute quarantine measures for Apollo’s 11, 12 and 14, build a mobile quarantine vehicle to transport the astronauts from the recovery ship USS Hornet to Houston and to sequester them in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL). The LRL was a dedicated negative pressure laboratory for receiving astronauts and moon rocks and performing research on both until it was determined that no threat of pathogen spread existed from lunar material. I had the honor of working in that building for many years and to ignore the importance of article X1 and space law relevant to planetary protection does not speak well of your journalistic rigor.
Hi Lawrence, thank you for your comment, really appreciate it. As we mentioned in the article we could only cover a fraction of the articles unfortunately. We are planning to write another article about the space law at some point - would love to get your input as looks like you have a lot of experience.
Thanks for the article. As a rocket scientist I hate dealing with legal issues, while as VC I understand the importance of it. I’m happy that at least someone is working on it:) by the way satellite imaging can help to get insights on your competitors for example you can measure occupation rate of parking lots and forecast the revenue of retail companies. Curious how we treat this situation from legal perspective:)
Many factual mistakes - for example OST doesn't ban all the weapons, but bans only nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction.
Please, check your articles
Thank you for you comment! The article has been corrected now. Really apretcate your attention.
For shame: You left out the most important element of all: planetary protection. Article X1 of the 1967 outer space treaty declared that spacefaring nations must prevent the spread or contamination of extraterrestrial pathogens to planet earth. And that forward contamination for outbound missions to the Moon, Mars and other heavenly bodies must be prevented. Article X1 is what prompted NASA to institute quarantine measures for Apollo’s 11, 12 and 14, build a mobile quarantine vehicle to transport the astronauts from the recovery ship USS Hornet to Houston and to sequester them in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL). The LRL was a dedicated negative pressure laboratory for receiving astronauts and moon rocks and performing research on both until it was determined that no threat of pathogen spread existed from lunar material. I had the honor of working in that building for many years and to ignore the importance of article X1 and space law relevant to planetary protection does not speak well of your journalistic rigor.
Hi Lawrence, thank you for your comment, really appreciate it. As we mentioned in the article we could only cover a fraction of the articles unfortunately. We are planning to write another article about the space law at some point - would love to get your input as looks like you have a lot of experience.