Space law is a set of laws that regulate activity in space, covering domestic and international agreements, rules and principles. Research and use of space resources in the majority is a collective activity , which involved dozens of countries. It is the interstate associations that are able to provide financial, intellectual and technological conditions for expanding human activities beyond the boundaries of the planet. One of the promising directions of space exploration is the сommercial orbital transportation services. The Ukraine Space Agency is a worthy partner in various inter-state associations specializing in the development and provision of cargo transportation to the low-Earth orbit. It is for this reason that the introduction of new approaches in the US legal framework of cargo transportation services to the low-Earth orbit is of considerable interest to Ukrainian science. Analyze the legal framework of сommercial orbital transportation services in the United States is the purpose of paper. The author describes the activities of NASA’s «Commercial Orbital Transportation Services» program, which implements a strategy for the development of transport capabilities of private companies


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    Title :

    Legal Framework of Orbital Transportation Services: US experience


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    Publication date :

    2018




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


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    Unknown






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