Sustainability in space Space is becoming more contested, congested, competitive, and contaminated. How to ensure the long-term sustainability of space activities, so present and future generations can use and explore it indefinitely? Tanja Masson-Zwaan • January 19, 2021 • 2 comments
Space Big Data: Big data troubles in the final frontier The increasing number of satellites launched and the rapid growth in the field of space data uses and applications, add another “big” dimension to the world of big data. At the same time, the associated legal challenges begin to surface. Dimitra Stefoudi • June 16, 2017
Gaining Freedom, Losing Space Classic international space law instruments promote the freedom of States to explore and use outer space for peaceful purposes, providing only vague restrictions on this freedom. Should the freedom of use be restricted? Neta Palkovitz • August 26, 2014 • 2 comments
A National Park on the Moon: When Moot Court Cases Come to Life A proposed U.S. Bill brings the 2013 space law moot court case to life. Read how the hypothetical case related to the Moon is relevant to the discussions around the Bill, and how Leiden University students are involved. Neta Palkovitz • July 16, 2013
Will YOU own the next space project? From private owned launchers to private missions into deep space, governments are no longer the sole promoter of space activities. As crowd funding for small-scale space projects becomes a reality, some legal questions arise Neta Palkovitz • August 17, 2012 • 7 comments
Human spaceflight: from Yuri, to André, to ‘Tom, Dick & Harry’? Human space flight is as exciting today as it was 51 years ago when Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the earth. With the marketing of private space trips by companies like Space Expedition Curacao, excitement and legal issues have amplified Tanja Masson-Zwaan • April 10, 2012
