Laws governing space are 50 years old. New ones are needed to prevent it becoming a ‘wild west’
- Written by Yucong Wang, Lecturer, School of Law and Justice, University of Newcastle
In the first few months of 2025, there’s been a flurry of private venture space missions. Some have been successful, such as American company Firefly Aerospace landing its spacecraft Blue Ghost Mission 1 on the Moon. This was the first successful lunar landing of a privately owned spacecraft.
But there have also been several recent failures....