session 4

Title: Launching into Outer Space
Description: The original way of launching objects into outer space – one rocket, one object- has been revolutionized already long time ago. Today’s technology can use reusable launchers, multiply the load of space objects, and develop methods such as launching from sea platforms, ships, airplanes, or space objects themselves. Also new countries are joining the family of launching States. This situation opens questions connected with the applicability of the Liability Convention, with contracts, insurance, liability, and fault. The panel deliberates the legal setup of the present and planned spaceports, and the challenges they are facing.
Date: 2024-10-16
Time: 10:15
Room: Green Hall 3

IPC members

Co-Chair: Dr. Rada Popova, Isar Aerospace Technologies GmbH, Germany;
Co-Chair: Dr. Yu Takeuchi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan;
Rapporteur: Mrs. Adriana Santana, Georgetown University Law Center, United States;

papers
Order	Time	Paper title	Mode	Presentation status	Speaker	Affiliation	Country
1	10:15	A Proportionality Framework for Assessing Launch Activities	10		Mr. Dominic Wilcox	Australian National University (ANU)	Australia
2	10:25	Ready for Launch (or Not)? Procurement Problems and the Launching State	10	withdrawn	Mr. Stefan-Michael Wedenig	Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University	Canada
3	10:35	Toward the clarification of the concept of “State which procures the launching”	10	confirmed	Ms. Riko Ishiyama	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)	Japan
4	10:45	Unauthorised private space activities: issues of responsibility and liability for launching States	10		Mr. Andrea Capurso	LUISS Guido Carli University	Italy
5	10:55	Space Insurance Requirements: Toward Modernizing International Liability Implementations	10	confirmed	Ms. Salomé Paradis		France
6	11:05	The uncontrolled reentry of rocket stages and the risks for countries on the equatorial line of the globe	10		Mrs. Luciana Gonçalves	Aeronautic Institute of Technology (ITA)	Brazil
7	11:15	French Space Operation Act evolutions and challenges in front of the exciting Newspace initiatives	10	confirmed	Mr. Nicolas PILLET	Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES)	France
8	11:25	The approach to space ports and launches under Portuguese law	10	confirmed	Ms. Helena Correia Mendonça	Vieira de Almeida & Associados	Portugal
9	11:35	Nuclear powered rockets: legal issues and perspectives.	10	confirmed	Dr. Marcos Fernandez-Tous	Department of Space Studies, University of North Dakota	United States
10	11:45	Range Safety in a Lunar Context: Legal and Policy Issues	10	confirmed	Prof. Andrea Harrington	Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University	Canada
11	11:55	Launching into Outer Space from the Lunar Surface: International Legal Aspects	10	withdrawn	Ms. Irina Chernykh	Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)	Russian Federation
12	12:05	Establishing Pre-launch Inspection Protocols and Regulatory Boundaries for Space Activities in Pursuit of Space Peace	10	confirmed	Ms. Samiksha Raviraja	University of Leicester	United Kingdom
1*	10:15	Navigating the legal Seas; Revisiting the concept of "Launching State" with regard to ship-based space launches	10	confirmed	Ms. VERA PALIALEXI	National and Kapodistrian University Of Athens	Greece
2*	10:25	Investment Protection Obligations of Launching States under International Law	10		Mrs. Laura Yvonne Zielinski		Mexico

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