law Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com Covering the business and politics of space Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:31:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-SN_forza_star-32x32.png law Archives - SpaceNews https://spacenews.com 32 32 80681979 Patenting space: promoting innovations and patents for exploring our final frontier https://spacenews.com/patenting-space-promoting-innovations-and-patents-for-exploring-our-final-frontier/ https://spacenews.com/patenting-space-promoting-innovations-and-patents-for-exploring-our-final-frontier/#respond Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=513780

Whether you’re NASA Administrator nominee Jared Isaacman, Virgin Galactic Founder Richard Branson, Artemis mission specialist Christina Koch, or even fictional astronaut and self-proclaimed “space pirate” Mark Watney, setting out on […]

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]]> https://spacenews.com/patenting-space-promoting-innovations-and-patents-for-exploring-our-final-frontier/feed/ 0 513780 Reaping space’s decline? Why to choose the durability of due regard over the debris of military devastation https://spacenews.com/trekking-into-the-stars-why-due-regard-provides-us-a-new-hope/ https://spacenews.com/trekking-into-the-stars-why-due-regard-provides-us-a-new-hope/#respond Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:30:00 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=512376 Computer-generated image of objects in Earth orbit that are currently being tracked. Credit: NASA

Recent voices have urged the United States to violate the Outer Space Treaty (OST), the binding principles of humanity’s use of outer space, by engrossing private industry for advancing U.S. […]

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]]> https://spacenews.com/trekking-into-the-stars-why-due-regard-provides-us-a-new-hope/feed/ 0 512376 Regulating outer space after Loper Bright https://spacenews.com/regulating-outer-space-after-loper-bright/ https://spacenews.com/regulating-outer-space-after-loper-bright/#respond Fri, 05 Jul 2024 13:42:52 +0000 https://spacenews.com/?p=466063 The U.S. Supreme Court building. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0

How Loper Bright could upend the process of crafting and enforcing space policy.

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