Current Issue

and Supplemental Material

Volume 34 - Winter 2008 - Number 2

Foreword, Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz

Articles

Special Section: 50th Anniversary of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958

Supplements:

• National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, As Amended (Pub.L. 85-568).

The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958: Revisited, Paul G. Dembling (preview article)

Supplements:

• National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (Pub.L. 85-568).
• NASA Legislative Origins of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 - Proceedings of an Oral History Workshop (1992).

50 Years Later: Serving a Space Agency Client – The Lawyer’s Role in International Space Cooperation, Robin J. Frank

Supplements:

• International Space Station Intergovernmental Agreement -- United States, Canada, European Space Agency, Japan, Russia (January 1998)
• NASA-Canadian Space Agency MOU (January 1998).
• NASA-European Space Agency MOU (January 1998).
• NASA-Russian Space Agency MOU (January 1998).
• NASA-Government of Japan MOU (February 1998).
• Global Exploration Strategy Framework (2007).
• Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000 (Pub.L. 106-178).
• Iran Nonproliferation Amendments Act of 2005 (Pub.L. 109-112).
• North Korea Nonproliferation Act of 2006 (Pub.L. 109-353).

Patent Infringement Issues Associated with Activities in Outer Space, Kurt G. Hammerle & Theodore Ro

Supplements:

• U.S. Patent Act of 1952.
• Patent Ammendments Act of 1984 (Pub.L. 98-622).
• Inventions in Outer Space Act (35 USC 105).
• Brown v Duchesne (60 US 183).
• Hughes v US (29 Fed Cl 197).

Space Act Agreements: A Practitioner’s Guide, David S. Schuman

Supplements:

• Authority to Enter into Space Act Agreements (NPD 1050.1l).
• NASA Space Act Agreements Guide (2008).
• Space Transportation Policy Fact Sheet (NSPD 40).
• In the Matter of Exploration Partners (GAO B-298804).
• In the Matter of Rocketplane Kistler (GAO B-310741).

On-orbit Satellite Destruction and Space Debris

Reflections upon the notion of Liability: The instances of Kosmos 954 and Space Debris, Andrew Brearly

Supplements:

• Liability Convention (1972).
• IADC Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines.
• OTA, Orbiting Debris: A Space Environmental Problem (1990).
• DOE, Nuclear Power in Space (NE-0071).
• David S. F. Portree & Joseph P. Loftus, Jr., Orbital Debris: A Chronology, NASA / TP-1999-208856 (1999).
• Convention for the Establishment of a European Space Agency (1975).
• Note Verbale, U.S.S.R. Nov 1, 1971 (UN Doc. A/AC.105/INF.368).
• Note Verbale, Canada Feb 8, 1978 (UN Doc. A/AC.105/214).
• Note Verbale, Canada March 3, 1978 (UN Doc. A/AC.105/217).
• Note Verbale, Canada December 19, 1978 (UN Doc. A/AC.105/236).
• Protocol on Settlement of Canada's Claim for Damage Caused by Cosmos 954 (1981).

FY-1C and USA-193 ASAT Intercepts: An Assessment of Legal Obligations under Article 9 of the Outer Space Treaty, Michael C. Mineiro

Supplements:

• USA-193: Selected Documents (2009).
• CRS-China's Anti-Satellite Weapon Test.
• Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969).
• GA Res. 1348 (XIII) Question of the Peaceful Use of Outer Space (1958).
• GA Res. 1472 (XIV) International Co-operation of the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (1959).
• Partial Test Ban Treaty (1963).

Other Articles

International Space Exploration and Critical Transparency of Basic Research: Impact of the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations, George S. Robinson & Eric McAdamis

Supplements:

• Vision for Space Exploration (2004).
• Arms Export Control Act of 1996. (Pub.L. 95-92).
• Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act (Pub.L. 105-261).
• National Policy on the Transfer of Scientific, Technical, and Engineering Information (NSDD 189).
• HR 4246 Defense Trade Controls Performance Improvement Act of 2007 (introduced).
• Department of State, Office of the Inspector General, Review of the U.S. Munitions List and the Commodity Jurisdiction Process, Memorandum Report 01-FP-M-027
• U.S.-U.K. Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty (Senate Treaty Doc. 110-7).

A Sleeping Beauty Awakens: The 1968 Rescue Agreement after Forty Years, Frans G. von der Dunk

Supplements:

• Rescue and Return Agreement (1968).
• GA Res. 1962 (XVIII) Declaration on the Legal Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space (1963).
• GA res. 51/122 Declaration on International Cooperation in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space for the Benefit and in the Interest of All States, Taking into Particular Account the Needs of Developing Countries (1997)

Law

France, LOI no 2008-518 du 3 juin 2008 relative aux opérations spatiales (Law No. 2008-518 of 3 June 2008 Related to Space Operations), translated by Philip Clerc, Head of Legal Department, and Julien Mariez, Legal Advisor, Centre National d’ Etudes Spatiales Legal (CNES) Department, Paris, France.

Japan, Fundamental Act of Outer Space (Law No.43, 2008), translated by Hiroshi Kiyohara, chief attorney, Musashi International Law Office, Tokyo.

Iran, Statute of the Iranian Space Agency (2005 & 2008), translated by Parviz Tarikhi, Head, Microwave Remote Sensing Department at the Mahdasht Satellite Receiving Station, Tehran, Iran.

Supplements:

• Space Law: Selected Documents 2008.

Casenote

The Privatization of Public Policy: EOSAT v. NASA and the Application of Antitrust Liability to Federally-Supported Monopolies, Jason A. Crook

Supplements:

• Land Remote Sensing Policy Act of 1992 (Pub. L. 102-555).
• Land Remote Sensing Commercialization Act of 1984 (Pub. L. 98-365).

Bibliography

Aviation and Space Law: Relevant Publications, P.J. Blount