Law, College of

 

Date of this Version

5-2017

Citation

Inside GNSS 12:3 (May/June 2017), pp. 36–41.

Comments

Copyright © 2017 Frans G. von der Dunk. Used by permission.

Abstract

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), obviously, make crucial use of satellites operating in an area commonly known as “outer space,” raising issues regarding which specific body of law might rule the operations of such satellite systems. Though the “horizontal” boundary between outer space and the underlying area of airspaces has never been authoritatively defined, it has generally been agreed that those two areas differ fundamentally as to the legal regimes ruling them, giving rise indeed to a specific body of “space law.”

Share

COinS