The White House Executive Order on the Recovery and Use of Space Resources: Pushing the Boundaries of International Space Law?

Work on the content of the law on space activities has been going in Poland for several years. So far, the drafters have not directly referred to the issue of space mining in the content of the proposed legal act. In this context, it is worth asking whether it is valuable and permissible, in terms of international space law and EU law, to regulate in the future (Polish) law on space activity the matter of prospecting, acquiring and using space resources, i.e. so-called space mining. If space mining were regulated in the Polish space law, Poland would not be the first country to do so. The discussed issues have already been regulated in the national space legislation of the USA, Luxemburg, UAE and Japan. This paper will analyze the issues of space mining as expressed in the current drafts of the Polish space law and foreign space legislation, of space mining as a means of achieving various goals and of the compatibility of space mining with international space law and EU law.

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The Sources of International Space Law: Revisited

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3806175 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ram S. Jakhu ◽

Steven Freeland ◽

David Kuan-Wei Chen

Keyword(s):

International Space ◽

Space Law

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International Space Law and Norms

Southern Space Studies - An Assessment Framework for Compliance with International Space Law and Norms ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-15762-3_3 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 23-37

Author(s):

David Lindgren

Keyword(s):

International Space ◽

Space Law

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The Fallen Envoy: The Rise and Fall of Astronaut in International Space Law

Space Policy ◽

10.1016/j.spacepol.2018.10.004 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 130-139

Author(s):

S.G. Sreejith

Keyword(s):

International Space ◽

Space Law

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1. The Origins Of Authorisation: Article VI Of The Outer Space Treaty And International Space Law

National Space Legislation in Europe ◽

10.1163/ej.9789004204867.iii-381.9 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 3-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Outer Space ◽

International Space ◽

Space Law ◽

Outer Space Treaty

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The International Space Station

Advances in Public Policy and Administration - Promoting Productive Cooperation Between Space Lawyers and Engineers ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7256-5.ch007 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 96-113

Author(s):

Sarah Katharina Germann

Keyword(s):

International Space Station ◽

Legal System ◽

Space Station ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Point Of View ◽

International Space ◽

Space Law ◽

The Creation ◽

Shed Light

The International Space Station is certainly one of the most astounding achievements of humankind in space. Especially from a legal point of view, the creation of the Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) and its sub-instruments specifically for the ISS was a major success: the IGA was the first grand-scale multi-national legally binding space-related treaty drafted, ratified, and implemented by the major space faring nations since the drafting of the five UN Space Treaties roughly 20 years before. And still today, the legal framework of the ISS is a stand-alone legal system which can serve as model for other missions, as it refines and develops in an innovative way the rules laid out in the five UN Space Treaties and at the same time manages to coordinate and organize management, utilization, and financing between all the partners. This chapter intends to shed light on the complex legal system governing the ISS and to point out the novelties of the IGA-Structure in comparison with the conventional body of international space law.

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Peaceful Purposes for the Benefit of All Mankind

War and Peace in Outer Space ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197548684.003.0005 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 109-122

Author(s):

P.J. Blount

Keyword(s):

International Law ◽

Outer Space ◽

International Peace ◽

International Space ◽

Legal Obligations ◽

Ethical Content ◽

Space Law ◽

Peace And Security ◽

Outer Space Treaty ◽

Geopolitical Context

This chapter argues that the Outer Space Treaty contains, in addition to its legal content, ethical content. The chapter then analyzes the text of the treaty to reveal this ethical content and connect it to the twin goals of the peaceful uses of outer space (found in international space law) and the maintenance of international peace and security (found in general international law). The analysis contends that, while the ethical content of the Outer Space Treaty does not create hard legal obligations, it does inform the nature of the legal content of the norms set out by the treaty. Finally, this chapter will also evaluate how the ethics deployed by the treaty have fared in the contemporary geopolitical context.

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