by Jeremy Grunert | Dec 23, 2022
The US Space Force at 3: Growing Dangers for a Growing Branch On 20 December 2022, the US Space Force (USSF) will celebrate the third anniversary of its creation—an anniversary that comes at the end of a year rife with space-related challenges. The after-effects of...
by Tara Brown | Aug 5, 2022
Can Starlink Satellites Be Lawfully Targeted? In an earlier post, I discussed the special attribution regime in Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty (OST) and the risk of activities of commercial actors drawing States into existing armed conflicts. This analysis...
by Tara Brown | Jul 8, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – The Risk of Commercial Actors in Outer Space Drawing States into Armed Conflict Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the satellite communications firm Viasat confirmed a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that is suspected to...
by Cynthia J. Parmley, Raul (Pete) Pedrozo | Apr 20, 2022
New Edition of The Commander’s Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations The Stockton Center for International Law (SCIL), U.S. Naval War College (NWC), recently completed a 2-year effort, in coordination with the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Coast Guard, to...
by Zhanna Malekos Smith | Apr 18, 2022
Putin and Xi’s Pact for Outer Space On the eve of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a joint statement on entering a new era of international relations—including in outer space. The...
by Timothy Goines, Jeffrey Biller, Jeremy Grunert | Mar 14, 2022
The Russia-Ukraine War and the Space Domain As demonstrated by this symposium, every domain of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War presents critical legal questions. This post focuses on the potential consequences of the war on the space domain. Although Russia continues...
