Specificities of United States Law Impact on the Legal and Regulatory Framework for the Global Space Market

by Dmytro Bezzubov¹ and Andrii Borovyk^2
1 State University of Infrastructure and Technology (Kyiv, Ukraine)
² Academician Stepan Demianchuk International University of Economics and Humanities (Rivne, Ukraine)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/asl/7/1
Received: 27 April 2021 / Accepted: 18 May 2021 / Published: 29 June 2021

Development of relations in the new sphere of human activity, first among individual States and then among other subjects of space activities (international organizations, legal entities and individuals), requires developing international space law and national space legislation and further improving both public international law and private international law. Specificity of the process of developing the law on relations between the subjects of the global market for space services and technologies is that the first legal mechanisms of these relations have been introduced by the national legal institutions of one country, the United States. Using the comparative method, the article analyses the legal and regulatory framework for space activities in foreign countries with regard to the standardization of their contemporary space activities. The study makes a conclusion that the domestic U.S. policy on supporting the commercialization and privatization of outer space activities is purposefully accompanied by specific foreign policy activities along with the adoption of governmental regulations on individual areas of outer space activities.

Keywords: space activities, global space, law, space commercial activities, space market, policy, United States

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