Haribalakumar K, LLM, School of Excellence in Law, Chennai
ABSTRACT
The inventions and exploration of humans have increased tremendously in various fields over the past few decades. This applies to the outer space exploration also. The enormous growth in any sector will create a demand for the new rules and regulations to satisfy the contemporary issues and also to avoid illicit activities. No state can expose sovereign rights over outer space. This in turn shall not be an advantage for the states to exploit the space region, as outer space is a common heritage of mankind. There are five major treaties which are there to govern the space activities of states. But the field of space exploration is not the sector which is only having the limited scope, this is the fastest developing sector at present. The outer space exploration has reached further step now and the concept of space tourism is evolving in the field of outer space. Outer space is now slowly becoming the area of commercialization. But at the same time, the launching of space vehicle create a negative impact on the Environment of the Earth as well as space in some cases. In this paper, we will take a look at how International law governs space activities, International liability of the state and what are the conventions and provisions that speaks about space activities and Environment.
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