The right to satellite remote sense data: impact of multilateral cooperation on international space law
- Paper number
IAC-11,E7,3,2,x10019
- Author
Mr. Phetole Sekhula, South Africa
- Year
2011
- Abstract
Access to satellite remore sense (SRS) data has posed problematic legal issues over the years. While the 1986 Principles On Remote Sense has provided a semblace of a coherent regulatory regime, the reality is that bilateral and multitarel agreemnts are the cornerstone of internal space law governing SRS. An examination of these international agreements reveals the attitude and stance of the signatories toward the 1986 Principles in partocular, and the rights and demands of less technologically advanced States (usually the Sensed State) in general. Yet the latter has recently made advances in either launching their own Earth Observation space systems or have entered into multilateral agreements to advance their own participation in SRS. Will these Agreements have an impact on the development of international space law governing SRS?
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