Location
Jim Henderson Welcome Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
Start Date
5-11-2014 3:15 PM
Abstract
Space Traffic Management (STM) is an effective concept for providing a solution to the current congested, contested, and competed situation of outer space. However the status of international legal system governing outer space remains at its original formation of the 1960s. Filling this gap is an inescapable task soon or late and it is necessary to establish the international regime for STM to do so. Various issues of the UN Space Treaties and relevant soft laws have been discussed in the context of STM item-by-item, but few are oriented to the establishment of a comprehensive international regime for STM.
This paper will try to pinpoint the problems of the current international legal regime as necessary to be solved for establishing the STM regime and provide the eligible solutions of them aligned with the STM regime. Namely, this paper will address that the value of discussing delimitation of outer space and air space will become relatively low, the definition of space object will not play an important role for STM regime, and the current State responsibility and liability will be reinterpreted.
By doing so, this paper will try to elucidate that it is not an extraordinary legal reconstruction of the current international space law required for establishing STM regime, but a few reinterpretation on its basis.
Area of Interest
Space Situational Awareness
Presentation
Included in
Toward the International Regime for Space Traffic Management -What to Fix the Current International Regulations-
Jim Henderson Welcome Center, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
Space Traffic Management (STM) is an effective concept for providing a solution to the current congested, contested, and competed situation of outer space. However the status of international legal system governing outer space remains at its original formation of the 1960s. Filling this gap is an inescapable task soon or late and it is necessary to establish the international regime for STM to do so. Various issues of the UN Space Treaties and relevant soft laws have been discussed in the context of STM item-by-item, but few are oriented to the establishment of a comprehensive international regime for STM.
This paper will try to pinpoint the problems of the current international legal regime as necessary to be solved for establishing the STM regime and provide the eligible solutions of them aligned with the STM regime. Namely, this paper will address that the value of discussing delimitation of outer space and air space will become relatively low, the definition of space object will not play an important role for STM regime, and the current State responsibility and liability will be reinterpreted.
By doing so, this paper will try to elucidate that it is not an extraordinary legal reconstruction of the current international space law required for establishing STM regime, but a few reinterpretation on its basis.
