TY - JOUR

T1 - The United Kingdom in Space: A New Era: Outlook on Latest Regulatory Developments and the UK Space Community

AU - Smith, Lesley Jane

AU - Thompson, Alan

AU - Beach, Nicholas

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Kluwer Law International BV, The Netherlands. All Rights Reserved.

PY - 2021/11/1

Y1 - 2021/11/1

N2 - With the passing of the Space Industry Regulations 2021 in June 2021, immediately prior to the UK Parliament taking up its annual summer recess, the government’s ongoing preparations since the passing of the Space Industry Act 2018 (Space Industry Act 2018, c.5, received Royal Assent on 15 March 2018) for fostering and developing the UK as an industrial and scientific location for private/ non-governmental space activities, are now about to take on further, practical dimensions. The past decade has seen the United Kingdom focus on arrangements for planning and developing seven spaceports at different regional locations around the UK. The approval of the Space Industry Regulations in June this year marks the implementation of the 2018 Space Act’s requirements and rules for licensing spaceports, and with this, the implementation of a system for authorising national space activities, including sub-orbital launches, to take place from the UK.

AB - With the passing of the Space Industry Regulations 2021 in June 2021, immediately prior to the UK Parliament taking up its annual summer recess, the government’s ongoing preparations since the passing of the Space Industry Act 2018 (Space Industry Act 2018, c.5, received Royal Assent on 15 March 2018) for fostering and developing the UK as an industrial and scientific location for private/ non-governmental space activities, are now about to take on further, practical dimensions. The past decade has seen the United Kingdom focus on arrangements for planning and developing seven spaceports at different regional locations around the UK. The approval of the Space Industry Regulations in June this year marks the implementation of the 2018 Space Act’s requirements and rules for licensing spaceports, and with this, the implementation of a system for authorising national space activities, including sub-orbital launches, to take place from the UK.

KW - Law

KW - Space Law

KW - UK licensing authority

KW - spaceports locations

KW - licenses

KW - regulatory issues

KW - including operator and liability insurance

KW - sustainability

KW - Recent UK space launch regulations

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85125049703&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.54648/aila2021046

DO - 10.54648/aila2021046

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 46

SP - 713

EP - 738

JO - Air and Space Law

JF - Air and Space Law

SN - 0927-3379

IS - 6

ER -