Session 2 of the IISL Colloquium at IAC 2024 successfully held
adminSLOn 15 October, 10:15 h the second session of the IISL Colloquium was held at the Milan International Convention Centre MICO. The topic of the session was entitled: Near Space: Legal Aspects of Aerospace Activities.
Topic description
In the last few years, technology is focusing not only on the use of outer space, but also of near space. The use of sub-orbital flights for testing purposes, the use of high-altitude platforms for communication, are only two examples of many. The panel invites authors to deliberate the challenges arising from the applicability of both air and space law. It discusses the future models for such activities, including the proposal on sub-orbital flights elaborated by the International Law Association, (ILA).
Session Chairs and Rapporteur
The session was co-chaired by Dr. Ranjana Kaul, Dua Associates, India; and Ms. Lauren Payne, D-Orbit SpA, United Kingdom. Ms. Lew Töpfer, Germany; acted as Rapporteur for the session.
Presented papers
The authors and their topics presented were:
| Presenter | Title |
| Prof. Christopher Newman | Point-to-Point Transport and High-Altitude Platform Systems: Jurisdiction, Regulation and Liability for high-altitude transportation. |
| Prof. Irmgard Marboe | The application of "international law" to sub-orbital activities – What does it mean? |
| Prof. George (Georgios) D. Kyriakopoulos | The ratione loci applicability of the rules of the air to aerospace activities |
| Prof. Setsuko Aoki | How much of space law will be applied to non-orbital flight activities for scientific, military and commercial purposes? |
| Ms. Audrey Allison | Where does Space Begin: The ITU’s Attempt to Tackle this Elusive Question at WRC-23 |
| Ms. Sofia Stellatou | Navigating the Legal Sky: Challenges and Opportunities for High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) |
| Ms. Sara Dalledonne; Ms. Justine Dousset | Space or High altitude: What´s in a name? |
| Mr. Luis Ismael López Salas | The role of aerospace activities in formulating, negotiating, and implementing a resilient, inclusive, and sustainable (inter)national legal regime for the near space. Towards shaping an aerospace regulatory and security complex in the XXI |
| Dr. Nayoung Youn | Current international and national legal regime on suborbital flight |
| Dr. YONGLIANG YAN | Liability for Damages induced by the Use of Aerospace Technology |
| Mr. Rafael Moro Aguilar | A proposed regulation of suborbital flights and other near space activities in the 2014 Spanish draft bill on space activities |
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