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...
by Christopher J. Borgen | Nov 21, 2021
Russia’s ASAT Test and the Development of Space Law On November 15, Russia launched a direct ascent anti-satellite (ASAT) missile that deliberately struck Cosmos-1408, one of its own satellites that had become inoperable years ago. Massing at about 2,000 kilograms and...
