Every generation of cellular phone network has brought significant advancement in the
speed of telecommunication services and with it, cultural change. Perhaps the best measure …

The thirty years of the Outer Space Treaty and the nigh forty years since the launch of
Sputnik 1, have seen astonishing developments. Remote sensing has grown as a beneficial …

International space law is a branch of international law that regulates the conduct of space
activities. Its core instruments include five space-specific international treaties, which were …

The development of satellite constellations and large infrastructures has been coming the
last few years. Although this advancement provides for a myriad of technological …

Satellite communications, the most extensive, commercialized, and applications-oriented of
outer space activities, is not a sector ruled by a single, coherent legal regime even at the …

The launch in 1957 of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, placed in a low orbit and emitting its
famous “beep-beep”, paved the way for space radiocommunications. According to the …

In a November 1 press release, Amazon announced that the company was making progress
on its Kuiper Project, an ambitious, decade-long plan that would release 3,236 …

It is a matter of sadness to be contributing to an issue of a Journal honoring the memory of
Judge Manfred Lachs. Having known his writings, it was both a pleasure and a stimulus to …

In a city that hosts a continuous series of international gatherings, last year's path-breaking
Geneva conference on satellite communications went largely unnoticed as the news media …

As the year turns into 2012, communications satellites allow personal communications and
the mass distribution of information on a global basis--helping to remove the digital divide …