Abstract This article focuses on the special context where humans from various nations work and live together in one orbiting laboratory, the International Space Station (ISS), and the legal rules pertinent to those activities. This essentially concerns the application of an existing body of international treaties on space and space activities to the ISS, as well as the special legal framework that has been established to deal with the various ramifications of this very international operating environment. Within that context moreover, the specific European parameters stemming from the fact that the European Space Agency (ESA) serves as the vehicle for the participation of 11 European states in the ISS deserve special attention. The totality of this set of rules, though in several instances not yet elaborated as extensively as might be desired, does provide for a dedicated comprehensive legal framework that may serve as an interesting example of international space law also with a view to future developments.


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    Title :

    Space law in the age of the International Space Station


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2009-01-01


    Size :

    14 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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