The EU Space Act: What One European Rulebook Would Change
120 articles, three pillars and a reach that follows the service rather than the operator. Where the file has got to in…
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Cross Waivers, MPL and Indemnification: How Launch Contracts Allocate Catastrophe
Everyone bears their own losses regardless of fault. Above that sit three tiers of third party protection, one of which has never…
Space Insurance Explained: How a $650 Million Market Prices Risk in Orbit
One bad year in 2023 wiped out several good ones and pushed the five year margin negative for the first time since…
Case Notes6 min read
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Dark-Sky Association v FCC: Standing, Starlink and the Categorical Exclusion
An astronomy body got through the courthouse door where a competitor could not, then lost anyway. Read with Viasat, the two decisions make constellation environmental challenges…
Commercial Space7 min read
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How ITU Filings Decide Who Gets Spectrum and Orbital Slots
Orbital positions are not owned, they are recorded. Here is the filing chain, the seven year bringing into use deadline, and the milestone rule that shrinks…
Regulatory Updates6 min read
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The FCC Five Year Deorbit Rule: Who It Binds and What It Requires
Twenty five years became five. The scope limits matter more than the headline: below 2,000 km, uncontrolled reentry, launches after 29 September 2024, and non-US operators…
Case Notes5 min read
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The DISH Consent Decree: The First Orbital Debris Fine, and What It Settled
A $150,000 penalty that nobody at DISH felt, over a satellite parked 178 km lower than it should have been. The number is not the point.…
Insights7 min read
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Space Debris Liability: Who Pays When Satellites Collide
The Liability Convention applies a fault standard to orbital collisions and never defines fault. That gap is why no claim has ever been brought for a…
Regulatory Updates7 min read
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FAA Part 450 Explained: How a US Launch Licence Works Now the Legacy Rules Have Gone
The legacy launch licensing parts came out of the CFR in March 2026. What Part 450 requires, what the new launch user fee costs, and what…
Explainers7 min read
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The Outer Space Treaty Explained, Article by Article
Six of its seventeen articles do almost all the work. Here is what Articles I, II, VI, VII, VIII and IX actually say, and the four…
Explainers8 min read
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What Is Space Law? A Plain English Guide to the Rules Above Us
Space law is two layers, not one. Five UN treaties that barely move, and a fast changing pile of national licensing rules that decide whether anyone…