🛰️⚖️From record satellite launches to space resources, space is evolving faster and with more actors than ever before. Keeping space safe and sustainable for all requires legal frameworks that can keep up with new challenges and opportunities.
📢 “There’s always this perception that space treaties are outdated. But it’s truly the opposite,” says Rosanna Hoffmann, Legal Officer at
#UNOOSA. Working with the 104 member states of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (
#COPUOS), UNOOSA helps expand and adapt space law to ensure governance keeps pace with the dynamic of the space sector. So, what does today’s space law cover?
5️⃣ International Space Treaties address the peaceful uses of outer space, astronaut rescue, liability for space activities, registration of space objects, and governance of lunar exploration.
7️⃣ International Legal Principles, Declarations & Guidelines on key issues like satellite broadcasting, remote sensing, space debris, space sustainability and th...