Defining ‘Outer Space’
As with a number of space law terms, the space treaties do not provide a definition of outer space. While for the most part a...
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Dr Thomas Cheney
Lecturer in Space Governance
Using legal geography and environmental humanities to better understanding space resources, space exploration, space settlement and more!
thomcheney
- Jan 19, 2018
- 5 min
UK Space Industry Bill: Second Commons Reading
On Monday 15 January, the 2nd anniversary of British ESA astronaut Tim Peake’s historic spacewalk, the House of Commons debated the Space...
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thomcheney
- Dec 15, 2017
- 6 min
UK Space Industry Bill: A Missed Opportunity to Promote British Space Mining?
The UK Space Industry Bill has now passed the House of Lords and is on its way to the House of Commons, the date for its second reading...
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thomcheney
- Jul 3, 2017
- 2 min
UK Space Industry Bill
The Space Industry Bill[1] was announced as part of the Queen’s Speech on 21 June 2017. It received its first reading in the House of...
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thomcheney
- May 8, 2017
- 5 min
Commons Science and Technology Select Committee Review of UK Draft Spaceflight Bill
The Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology recently conducted an enquiry into the UK Draft Spaceflight Bill[1] and have now...
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thomcheney
- Feb 27, 2017
- 4 min
UK Spaceflight Act 2017
A UK spaceport has been on the horizon for a few years now and there are number of different sites scattered throughout the UK that have...
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thomcheney
- Feb 6, 2017
- 7 min
Spexit: What Does Brexit Mean for the UK’s Place in Space? Part 1
This was originally intended to be a single post largely derived from a presentation I gave at a conference on ‘The Impact of the 2016...
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