Legal Aspects Around Satellite Constellations

Studies in Space Policy Annette Froehlich Editor Legal Aspects Around Satellite Constellations Studies in Space Policy Volume 19 Series Editor European Space Policy Institute, Vienna, Austria Editorial Advisory Board Jean-Jacques Tortora, European Space Policy Institute, Vienna, Austria Genevieve Fioraso, Former Minister and Member of the French Parliament, France Gerd Gruppe, Bereich Raumfahrtmanagement, Mitglied des DLR-Vorstands, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Pavel Kabat, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria Sergio Marchisio, Full Professor of International Law, Sapienza University, Italy Dominique Tilmans, YouSpace, Wellin, Belgium Ene Ergma, Former President of the Estonian Parliament, Estonia Ingolf Schädler, Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology, Austria Gilles Maquet, Former Senior Vice President of Astrium, France Jaime Silva, Former Minister, Advisor to the Director General for Internal DG GROW, Portugal Per Tegnér, European Space Policy Institute, Vienna, Austria Edited by the European Space Policy Institute Director: Jean-Jacques Tortora The use of outer space is of growing strategic and technological relevance. The development of robotic exploration to distant planets and bodies across the solar system, as well as pioneering human space exploration in earth orbit and of the moon, paved the way for ambitious long-term space exploration. Today, space exploration goes far beyond a merely technological endeavour, as its further development will have a tremendous social, cultural and economic impact. Space activities are entering an era in which contributions of the humanities—history, philosophy, anthropology—, the arts, and the social sciences—political science, economics, law—will become crucial for the future of space exploration. Space policy thus will gain in visibility and relevance. The series Studies in Space Policy shall become the European reference compilation edited by the leading institute in the field, the European Space Policy Institute. It will contain both monographs and collections dealing with their subjects in a transdisciplinary way. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8167 Annette Froehlich Editor Legal Aspects Around Satellite Constellations Editor Annette Froehlich European Space Policy Institute Vienna, Austria ISSN 1868-5307     ISSN 1868-5315 (electronic) Studies in Space Policy ISBN 978-3-030-06027-5    ISBN 978-3-030-06028-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06028-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2019933358 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors