legal implications concerning the creation of a mexican specialized administration for space activities
- Paper number
IAC-08.E8.5.13
- Author
Mr. Gudino Otto, Mexico
- Year
2008
- Abstract
In the decade of the sixties Mexico established an ambitious space program, This was sawn in the development of aeronautics, telecommunications, meteorology, remote sensing and others; also the participation in international space projects, with purpose of training personnel, was common on those days. A specialized institution to manage research and development for space activities was established (Outer Space National Commission, 1962). But with time space development became of no interest to government, so in 1977 by presidential decree, the space policy and the specialized institution were canceled. The influence of those events is reflected in the actual Mexican supreme law that is limited only to recognize two space activities: satellite communications and allocation of orbital slots. Other activities or a space policy is merely inexistent. Today a group integrated by the scientific community, some congress men and enthusiasts have presented a project of law in which they expose the need and advantages of creating a specialized administration that take care of Mexican activities concerning space and to establish a domestic space policy. The purpose of this document is to describe the contemporary Mexican legal frame related with space activities, the legal status of the project of Law to crate a specialized administration for space activities and the legal implications in the case of its approval.
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