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Despite PolandВ’s ratification of all major international space law treaties, except the 1979 moon treaty, it has not implemented these norms in internal legal order. It is therefore quite difficult to discuss unlegislated national space law. The only domestic reference to space law is the Act establishing the Polish Space Agency and Polish Space Strategy, but this Act is not legislative. Although Poland has many obligations resulting from membership in the European Union (since 2004) and the European Space Agency...

As a result of Ukraine’s independence and its proclamation as a law-governed state, it became necessary to regulate the scientific, technical and production potential of the space industry formed during the time of the Soviet Union under the rules of Ukraine law. Therefore, the Supreme Council of the Ukraine Parliament, Verkhovna Rada, adopted the Law “On Space Activities” No. 502/96-VR on November 15 1996, and this remains in force today. Since 1993, Ukraine space activity implementation has been based on th...

Space law is a branch of international law, and the five major treaties that oblige States to implement space law in their national legal order have many stipulations. Most states have now initiated Acts which regulate space laws, space strategies and space policies. The UN countries can be divided into three groups; states that fully implemented international space law in their domestic legislation, states that partly implemented these norms and those who have not legislated space law or this legislation is other...

According to the European Space Agency statistics posted on July 2013, the orbit contains a curious number of debris. Specifically, there are more than 170 million debris smaller than 1 cm (0.4 in), and about 670,000 debris ranging between 1 and 10 cm. Further, around 29,000 larger debris were estimated to be in orbit. Figures from the U.S Strategic Command drafted report indicate that in the EarthВ’s orbit, there are 17,852 artificial objects, including 1,419 operational satellites. Due to the fact that we can co...

This research intends to investigate the origin of space tourism, as well as its legal framework. The first space Tourist was Denis Tito who is credited with being the first space tourist. He is a U.S citizen who worked for NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Despite being of American descent, his International Space Station trip was facilitated by the Russian Government through the Roscosmos State Corporation. Overall, the trip cost 20 million dollars. For over 40 years, only states had monopoly for activities in...

Initially, only states were capable of running space programs. The period of rivalry between the greatest powers after World War 2 brought the dynamics of space exploration and the improvement of space technologies. During the cold war period, USA and the USSR were concerned that the other states could gain an advantage by sending armaments of mass restriction and conventional weapons to the orbit. In 1969, the first human landed on the Moon and stuck a US flag on its surface. Denis Tito flew in space in 2001 as a...