Features of the Activities of Public Entities in Space Debris Mitigation

• Author: Nataliia Khatniuk, Nelli Pobiianska and Andriy Cherneha
• Position: Doctor of Laws, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University (Kyiv, Ukraine)/PhD student of the Volodymyr the Great Educational and Scientific Institute of Law Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (Kyiv, Ukraine)/Ph.D. in Law, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University (Kyiv, Ukraine)
• Pages: 26-33

Advanced Space Law, Volume 4, 2019

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Features of the Activities of Public Entities in Space

Debris Mitigation

Nataliia Khatniuk1

Doctor of Laws, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University (Kyiv, Ukraine)

E-mail: tykhonska@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3064-7510

Nelli Pobiianska2

PhD student of the Volodymyr the Great Educational and Scientic Institute of Law

Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (Kyiv, Ukraine)

E-mail: Siete@ukr.net

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5872-9281

Andriy Cherneha3

Ph.D. in Law, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University (Kyiv, Ukraine)

E-mail: a.cherneha@kubg.edu.ua

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5016-6998

The article investigates the features of the activities of public entities in space debris mitigation.

In order to simulate the consequences and develop adequate measures to mitigate space debris, it is

necessary to create and analyze databases on space debris, and develop the systems of preventing

collisions with the space debris. The commercialization of space aects the development of a system of

entities dealing with mitigation of space debris, which can be divided into two groups: public and private

entities. However, in our study, we pay attention to the rst group of entities acting in the eld of space

debris mitigation, namely public entities, which can also be divided into two subgroups: international

organizations and national space agencies. The further solution of the global space debris problem

requires the harmonization of existing and the creation of new rules for the proper functioning of both

public and private space debris mitigation actors. After all, only the joint activities of which, when

carried out in a coordinated, logical and systematic way, will be able to lead to the desired results —

reducing the existing and preventing the creation of new space debris in the future.

Keywords: space debris, public entities, international organizations, space agencies, mitigation,

prevention, space activities, space

Received: October 23, 2019; accepted: November 26, 2019

© Khatniuk, Nataliia, 2019

© Pobiianska, Nelli, 2019

© Cherneha, Andriy, 2019