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SUMMARY:Commercial space law: the new business – challenges and opportuni
 ties
DESCRIPTION:OneWeb\, SpaceX\, Blue Origin\, new actors\, new funding tool
 s\, new insurance policies\; need for new lawyers?\n\nFollowing the Sput
 nik launch back in 1957\, the Space Race of the Cold War pitted the worl
 d’s two superpowers against one another to explore what lies beyond Eart
 h. Now anyone with enough money and enterprise can get into space. This 
 new race is therefore not between countries – it is between companies. T
 echnological advances are overturning traditional models for operating i
 n space.\n\nA host of firms are promising cheaper access to space\, with
  innovations such as renewable rockets and horizontal launch systems.\n\
 nSatellites are getting smaller and becoming cheaper to build. In 2017\,
  more than 70 states\, commercial companies and international organisati
 ons operated nearly 1\,500 satellites in orbit (swfound.org). Investment
  is pouring into the space sector. In 2016\, the global space economy to
 talled US$329bn\, with 75 per cent of that coming from commercial activi
 ty – not governments. In 2017\, it totalled\nUS$383.5bn\, revealing a gr
 owth of more than 15 per cent (Space Foundation Report 2018).\n\nThe ses
 sion will explore the legal issues behind this development\, as well as 
 insurance\, financing (funding satellite as assets)\, regulation\, comme
 rcial side of dual-use satellites\, etc.
LOCATION:Room 307 A\, Floor 3
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