Dr. Olga Stelmakh-Drescher is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Space Governance at McGill Institute of Air and Space Law where she coordinates the International Study on Global Space Governance and conducts research on space sustainability and security. She also serves as a Global Partnerships Manager for the World Space Week Association. Prior to that she was with the George Washington University's Space Policy Institute, Parliament of Ukraine, German Aerospace Center, Ukrainian Space Agency and European Space Agency. Olga has been in the space sector for more than 13 years, from which 7 years as a public officer (including governmental and parliamentarian experience). In 2013 Olga was honored with the IAF Emerging Space Leaders recognition award and is a member of the International Institute of Space Law, Women in Aerospace and Global Future Council of the World Economic Forum.
The paper will be focused on the dominant legal actions taken worldwide, more specifically at the... more The paper will be focused on the dominant legal actions taken worldwide, more specifically at the regional and international level, towards responsible and secure use of outer space and ensuring of its sustainability. For this purpose the sufficiency of applicable legally binding norms elaborated at the beginning of the space era and extent of complementarity of the pertinent soft law provisions will be analyzed. It will also envisage legal grounds for regulating emerging space threats and a shaped framework for measures taken at all stages of space activities towards achieving of aforementioned objectives. The emphasis will be made on legal initiatives to manage the risks posed by dangerous space debris, destructive collisions, the crowding of satellites, the growing saturation of the radio-frequency spectrum, etc. In this line, the paper will provide an overview of such topical concepts as " space situational awareness " , " space traffic management " and " active debris removal ". Finally, the role of international cooperation through transparency and confidence-building measures designed to enhance coordinated actions in the context of concepts' proper implementation will be examined.
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