Speaker
Nicholas Ross
(Niparo Ltd., Edinburgh, U.K.)
Description
The United Kingdom has two major pieces of domestic legislation that
are related to space actives: the Outer Space Act 1986 (OSA) and the
Space Industry Act 2018 (SIA). The UK has also been (self-)championing
itself in the regulatory, insurance and liabilities arenas as a “space
sustainability” leader. In this presentation we give a quick overview of
the current legislation, discuss its strengths and weaknesses, and point
towards how domestic legislation and regulation can potentially help
issues involved in spacecraft disposal and re-entry.
Primary author
Nicholas Ross
(Niparo Ltd., Edinburgh, U.K.)
Co-author
Alexander Simmonds
(Dundee Law School, University of Dundee,)
