| Title: | Exploring potential gaps in the outer space treaty |
| Authors: | Marcela Saemi Tanaka Aceves, Author |
| Material Type: | ISU Individual Project |
| Publisher: | Illkirch-Graffenstaden (France) : International Space University, 2021 |
| Size: | 1 electronic resource (xi, 40 p.) / col. ill. |
| Bibliography note: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Languages: | English |
| Description: | The Outer Space Treaty is the Magna Carta of space law. However, the negotiations that led to its creation were carried out in a different context from the current one. More than 50 years later, the reality of the space sector has changed. This report discusses its potential loopholes and the possibility of these frustrating its main principles: collaboration, freedom of exploration, the peaceful use of outer space, space exploration for the benefit of all countries, non-appropriation, and non-weaponization. This report includes an analysis of the preamble and nine articles of the treaty. It has been found that most of the loopholes that have been popularized, like the appropriation of outer space by individuals, do not have a legal foundation; and on the contrary, that the OST provides sufficient arguments to ensure that these loopholes were never open. An explicit lack of definition was found in important terms such as "outer space", "benefit", “interest”, "envoys of mankind", “peaceful purposes”, and "harmful interference". In the Results and Recommendations, different alternatives and suggestions are presented to ensure that the OST complies with its principles, mostly in the form of soft law instruments. |
| ISU program : | Master of Space Studies |
| Permalink: | https://isulibrary.isunet.edu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=11384 |
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