Proceedings of the Workshop - United Nations Office for Outer ...

Property rights allowed in the commercialspace activitiesReferring to the provisions of the Space Treaties Property rights to the space object acknowledged by theSpace Treaty 1967• Private enterprise is acknowledged its right to the space objectunder the provision of Article 8 (“ownership of objects launchedinto outer space, ... is not affected by their presence in outerspace”)• Some scholars maintain : because the Treaty prescribes thecontinuing supervision and jurisdiction of the States upon itsnational activities, private property is to be protected in the outerspace and celestial bodies. (M. Couston, “such protection ispermitted owing to the nationality registration which constitutesthe link between legal regime applicable on the earth to the spaceobject and the one applicable in the outer space.”)