Once again, I recently spent time as part of the SGAC delegation to the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS) Legal...

The first Monday afternoon of the annual session of the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOS)...

As with a number of space law terms, the space treaties do not provide a definition of outer space. While for the most part a...

The UK Space Industry Bill has now passed the House of Lords and is on its way to the House of Commons, the date for its second reading...

Notice the flag in the upper left… On Friday Sentinel-5P was launched. The British press were keen to emphasise that it was ‘British...

This week I attended the fourth meeting of The Hague Space Resources Governance Working Group[1] (I am an observer). After the...

Luxembourg has become the second nation, the first in Europe, to provide a legal framework for space resource utilization activities...

The Space Industry Bill[1] was announced as part of the Queen’s Speech on 21 June 2017. It received its first reading in the House of...

The Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology recently conducted an enquiry into the UK Draft Spaceflight Bill[1] and have now...

I spent the past week in a windowless room in Vienna, and had a really interesting and enjoyable time. I went as part of the SGAC...

This is the second of what will probably be three posts on the consequences of Brexit on the UK Space Sector. The first post served as a...

A UK spaceport has been on the horizon for a few years now and there are number of different sites scattered throughout the UK that have...

This was originally intended to be a single post largely derived from a presentation I gave at a conference on ‘The Impact of the 2016...

The Outer Space Treaty (OST), frequently described as the ‘constitution’ or cornerstone of space law, was opened for signature fifty...