National Space Legislation for India Proposal for a Draft Framework
This book discusses the need for national space legislation in India in the wake of private stakeholders entering the field and the expansion of outer space activities. Highlighting India’s commitment to responsibly pursuing its outer space ambitions thro
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National Space Legislation for India Proposal for a Draft Framework
National Space Legislation for India
Kumar Abhijeet
National Space Legislation for India Proposal for a Draft Framework
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Kumar Abhijeet New Delhi, India
ISBN 978-981-15-2674-9 ISBN 978-981-15-2675-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2675-6
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Preface
Indian space programme has been advancing dynamically since its inception on sheer governmental support. To further enhance space capability, India is positively looking forward for active participation of private entities. The absence of law has been a major hurdle for private sector participation. The study was undertaken with the objective to propose draft framework space legislation for India. In the first step, international space treaties have been studied to find out whether there is any necessity for states to enact national space legislation. In the second step, a comparative study of space legislations of selected spacefaring countries has been done. The underlying hypothesis was that since states have enacted national space legislation largely in response to international space treaties, there exists a certain common denominator that any space legislation must address. In the third step, a case study from India is made to know the technological developments and current legal regime for space acti
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