Private Property Rights in Space

What’s happening? I had no idea there were formalized agreements on private property rights and space. There are and they’re entitled, respectively, Treaty On Principles Governing The Activities Of States In The Exploration And Use Of Outer Space, Including The Moon And Other Celestial Bodies, aka the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 (OST) & the Artemis Accords (Accords), an inter-agency agreement adopted by NASA and its partners as part of the Artemis Moon program.

Why is this important? We’ve been talking about property rights when space junk lands. States are tackling the issue when space junk lands within a state

How will this be important? Space and space travel has been privatized. The laws are coming next.

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