Session 4 of the IISL Colloquium at IAC 2024 successfully held
adminSLOn 16 October, 10:15 h the fourth session of the IISL Colloquium was held at the Milan International Convention Centre MICO. The topic of the session was entitled: Launching into Outer Space.
Topic 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.
Session Chairs and Rapporteur
The session was co-chaired by Dr. Rada Popova, Isar Aerospace Technologies GmbH, Germany; and Dr. Yu Takeuchi, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan. Mrs. Adriana Santana, Georgetown University Law Center, United States; acted as Rapporteur for the session.
Presented papers
The authors and their topics presented were:
| Presenter | Title |
| Mr. Dominic Wilcox | A Proportionality Framework for Assessing Launch Activities |
| Ms. VERA I. PALIALEXI | Navigating the legal Seas; Revisiting the concept of "Launching State" with regard to ship-based space launches |
| Mr. Kazushi Kobata; Ms. Riko Ishiyama | Toward the clarification of the concept of “State which procures the launching” |
| Mr. Andrea Capurso | Unauthorised private space activities: issues of responsibility and liability for launching States |
| Ms. Salomé Paradis | Space Insurance Requirements: Toward Modernizing International Liability Implementations |
| Mrs. Luciana Gonçalves | The uncontrolled reentry of rocket stages and the risks for countries on the equatorial line of the globe |
| Mr. Nicolas PILLET | French Space Operation Act evolutions and challenges in front of the exciting Newspace initiatives |
| Ms. Helena Correia Mendonça | The approach to space ports and launches under Portuguese law |
| Dr. Marcos Fernandez-Tous; Prof. Michael Dodge | Nuclear powered rockets: legal issues and perspectives. |
| Prof. Andrea Harrington | Range Safety in a Lunar Context: Legal and Policy Issues |
| Mrs. Laura Yvonne Zielinski | Investment Protection Obligations of Launching States under International Law |
| Ms. Samiksha Raviraja | Establishing Pre-launch Inspection Protocols and Regulatory Boundaries for Space Activities in Pursuit of Space Peace |
