Activity
Time:
Outer Space as a Commercial Domain and a Warfighting Domain:Emerging Issues in Space Law
Date:
12:00 pm –
5:00 pm
Press Club, Washington D.C.
Contact:
Elsbeth Magilton, 472-1662, elsbeth.magilton@unl.edu
Our Annual Washington D.C. Conference will be held on Friday, September 15, 2017 at the National Press Club in Washington D.C.
Outer Space as a Commercial Domain and a Warfighting Domain:Emerging Issues in Space Law
Registration available at:
http://law.unl.edu/annual-conferences/
The outer space domain is increasing in stature as a full-fledged commercial domain. Business plans and investments are expanding in new activities, such as asteroid mining, lunar and on-orbit facilities and rovers, and on-orbit satellite servicing. Traditional commercial activities of communications and remote sensing satellites are seeing new business and technology plans, including large low-earth orbit constellations for internet and internet-of-things functions, and all ranges of sophistication for remote sensing applications. Large-scale human space flight in terms of sub-orbital flights will soon be brought to market. Civil space agencies are assessing how best to cooperate with and assist growing commercial applications as well as what independent programs, particularly in deep space, they should maintain. Simultaneously, there is increasing concern among policy-makers that the space domain is at risk of no longer being a benign environment that militaries use as a force enabler and enhancer. Rather, it has recently been characterized by leading military officials as a warfighting domain, like the traditional domains of land, sea and air. These changes in the space domain raise significant issues of space law and policy the implications of which will be discussed by three distinct panels focused on the commercial, civil and national security space perspectives of the new and future space domain.
Travel provided as part of LLM program fees for LLM students. JD students welcome, but no travel funding is currently provided.
Location: Press Club, Washington DC
Outer Space as a Commercial Domain and a Warfighting Domain:Emerging Issues in Space Law
Registration available at:
http://law.unl.edu/annual-conferences/
The outer space domain is increasing in stature as a full-fledged commercial domain. Business plans and investments are expanding in new activities, such as asteroid mining, lunar and on-orbit facilities and rovers, and on-orbit satellite servicing. Traditional commercial activities of communications and remote sensing satellites are seeing new business and technology plans, including large low-earth orbit constellations for internet and internet-of-things functions, and all ranges of sophistication for remote sensing applications. Large-scale human space flight in terms of sub-orbital flights will soon be brought to market. Civil space agencies are assessing how best to cooperate with and assist growing commercial applications as well as what independent programs, particularly in deep space, they should maintain. Simultaneously, there is increasing concern among policy-makers that the space domain is at risk of no longer being a benign environment that militaries use as a force enabler and enhancer. Rather, it has recently been characterized by leading military officials as a warfighting domain, like the traditional domains of land, sea and air. These changes in the space domain raise significant issues of space law and policy the implications of which will be discussed by three distinct panels focused on the commercial, civil and national security space perspectives of the new and future space domain.
Travel provided as part of LLM program fees for LLM students. JD students welcome, but no travel funding is currently provided.
Location: Press Club, Washington DC