ATLAC And the Early Emergence of Lunar Governance
At its February meeting, the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) formally created ATLAC, the Action Team on Lunar Activities...
Space Resources 2024: In Search of the Grand Bargain
The United Nations sponsored two meetings of space resource experts this spring, one in Luxembourg in March and the other in Vienna in April....
Will COPUOS five-year mission produce a new “international governance instrument” for outer space resources?
Introduction
During its 2022 session, the Legal Subcommittee (LSC) of the United Nation’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) created a Working...
The Artemis Accords: Repeating the Mistakes of the Age of Exploration
“Space is a warfighting domain. . . . It is not enough to have an American presence in space; we must have American dominance...