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Space Policy

How space policy evolves from historical context through policy outcomes, across law, commerce, the environment, international cooperation, and national security. Every topic gets: what the rule says, who it structurally benefits and why, and the competing positions, stated fairly.

Modules

7 Modules, One Sitting Each

Module 1 Available

The Outer Space Treaty (1967) and Its Foundations

Non-appropriation principle, peaceful use requirements, state responsibility for non-government actors — and who structurally benefited from locking in a "no territorial claims" norm in 1967.

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Later Space Law Instruments

Rescue Agreement, Liability Convention, Registration Convention, Moon Agreement (and why almost no spacefaring nation ratified it). What it does, who signed, who didn't, and why.

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National Space Law and Export Control

ITAR and its effect on international collaboration and satellite commerce; how national licensing regimes create real competitive advantages and disadvantages.

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Space Resource Rights

US Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, Luxembourg's similar law, the Artemis Accords' resource-utilization language, alongside objections from non-signatory nations that this amounts to unilateral appropriation.

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Military and Dual-Use Space Policy

Space as a warfighting domain, anti-satellite weapons testing and the debris consequences, the tension between "peaceful use" treaty language and de facto militarization.

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Environmental Policy: Orbital Debris and Planetary Protection

Orbital debris/Kessler syndrome and mitigation guidelines; planetary protection policy. Who benefits from strict vs. loose enforcement.

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Current Geopolitical Landscape

Artemis Accords signatories vs. the China-Russia International Lunar Research Station partnership, presented as two competing coalitions with their own stated rationales.

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Sourcing

Primary Sources

Actual treaty texts (UN Office for Outer Space Affairs), Artemis Accords text and signatory list, ITAR text, national space law summaries from law firms and government sites that specialize in space law. This module set should always be checked for current developments before publishing.

Continue the Sequence

Every module in this course is published — start at Module 1, or jump to whichever one you need.

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