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UN Questionnaire on possible legal issues with regard to aerospace objects
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UN Questionnaire on possible legal issues with regard to aerospace objects

Replies from member States to the UN Questionnaire on Possible Legal Issues with Regard to Aerospace Objects:

UN A/AC.105/635/Add.16 (2008) (see questions at p. 1)

UN A/AC.105/635/Add.15 (2007)

UN A/AC.105/635/Add.14 (2007)

UN A/AC.105/635/Add.13 (2006)

UN A/AC.105/635/Add.12 (2005)

UN A/AC.105/635/Add.11 (2005)

UN A/AC.105/635/Add.10 (2004)

UN A/AC.105/635/Add.9 (2003)

UN A/AC.105/635/Add.8 (2003)

UN A/AC.105/635/Add.7 (2003)

UN A/AC.105/635/Add.6 (2002)

UN A/AC.105/635/Add.5 (1998)

UN A/AC.105/635/Add.4 (1997)

UN A/AC.105/635/Add.3 (1996)

UN A/AC.105/635/Add.2 (1996)

UN A/AC.105/635/Add.1 (1996)

UN A/AC.105/635 (1996)

Other documents

Agreement on the Rescue of Astronauts, the Return of Astronauts and the Return of Objects Launched into Outer Space (Astronauts and Rescue Agreement) (1968)
UN RES 2345 (XXII)

Books

F. DURANTE (ed.)
“La regolamentazione giuridica dei mezzi di trasporto aero-spaziali”
Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 2000.

Articles

M. CHATZIPANAGIOTIS
“Registration of Space Objects and Transfer of Ownership in Orbit”
ZLW, Year 2007, Issue 2.

C. Q. CHRISTOL
“The Aerospace Plane: Its Legal and Political Future”
Space Policy, Vol. 9, N. 1, 1993, p. 35.

J. C. COOPER
“Legal Problems of Spacecraft in Airspace”
In I. A. VLASIC (ed.), “Explorations in Aerospace Law: Selected Essays by John Cobb Cooper, 1946-1966”, McGill University Press, Montreal, 1968, p. 305.

P. S. DEMPSEY, M. MINEIRO
“The ICAO’s Legal Authority to Regulate Aerospace Vehicles”
In J. N. PELTON, R. M. JAKHU, “Space Safety Regulations and Standards”
Elsevier, 2010, Chapter 19, pp. 245-256.

I. H. P. DIEDERIKS-VERSCHOOR
“Financing and Insurance Aspects of Spacecraft”
Journal of Space Law, Vol. 24, 1996, p. 97.

I. DIERDERIKS-VERSCHOOR
“The legal Aspects of the Space Shuttle”
Annals of Air and Space Law, Vol. I, 1976, p. 197.

J. M. de FARAMIÑÀN GILBERT
“Análisis jurídico sobre el concepto de objeto aeroespacial (desde la legislación y la doctrina española)”
Revista Española de Derecho Internacional, Vol. XLIX, n. 1, 1997, pp. 333-341.

L. F. FIALLOS PAZMIÑO
“Legal Aspects of Launching and Operating Spacecraft”
Unpublished LL.M. Dissertation, McGill University, 2003 (on file as archival material).

K. M. GOROVE
“Delimitation of Outer Space and the Aerospace Object: Where Is the Law?”
Journal of Space Law, Vol. 28, 2000, p. 11.

S. GOROVE
“Aerospace Object: Legal and Policy Issues for Air and Space Law”
Journal of Space Law, Vol. 25, 1997, p. 101.

S. HOBE
“Aerospace Vehicles: Questions of Registration, Liability, and Institutions: A European Perspective”
Annals of Air and Space Law, Vol. XXIX, 2004.

E. KELLY
“The Spaceplane: The Catalyst for Resolution of the Boundary and “Space Object” Issues in the Law of Outer Space?”
Unpublished LL.M. thesis, McGill University, Montreal, 1998 (on file with the McGill University Nahum Gelber Law Library)

M. KÖSTER
“Annex to the Working Group [on Launch and Associated Services] Report: Legal Problems Related to a Combined Use of Airspace by Air- and Spacecraft”
In K.-H. BOCKSTIEGEL (ed.), “Project 2001 – Legal Framework for the Commercial Use of Outer space: Recommendations and Conclusion to Develop the Present State of the Law”, Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne, 2002, p. 103.

G. LAFFERRENDERIE
“Jurisdiction and Control of Space Objects and the Case of an International Intergovernmental Organisation (ESA)”
ZLW, Year 2005, Issue 2.

S. MARCHISIO
“Aspetti generali della responsabilità connessa all’uso dei mezzi aerospaziali”
In F. DURANTE (ed.), “La regolamentazione giuridica dei mezzi di trasporto aero-spaziali”, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 2000, pp. 61-71.

T. L. MASSON-ZWAAN
“Legal Aspects of Aerospace Planes”
In “Proceedings of the ECSL Summer Course on Space Law and Policy: Basic Materials”, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1993.

T. L. MASSON-ZWAAN
“The Spaceplane and the Law”
Journal of space law, Vol. 109, Issue 1, 1991, p. 60.

J. E. REIFARTH
“Interrelation between German Air Law and Space Law Regarding the Passage of Spacecraft through National Air Space”
In “Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space, 1983”.

A. D. TEREKHOV
“Passage of Space Objects through Foreign Airspace: International Custom?”
Journal of Space Law, Vol. 25, 1997, p. 1.

Useful links

ESA Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)

Google Lunar X Prize

NASA Space Shuttle website

Russian Space web on the Soyuz