Summary |
This book synthesizes information on the norms at play, to allow the grasp of their relative weight and interactions in assessment of liability risk for launch activities. It reveals a legal framework presently lacking sufficient predictability for an efficient liability risk management:
- The waivers of liability suffer weaknesses as all such clauses, and lack uniformity and reliability;
- The Space Treaties contain ambiguous terms preventing predictable determination of the States responsible for authorizing and supervising launch activities and for damage compensation, and do not reflect the liability of launch operators.
This book offers suggestions of new approaches for:
- Harmonizing waivers of liability to improve their consistency, validity and flow-down;
- Improving the Space Treaties for their implementation to non-governmental launch activities.
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