International Legal Regulation of the Missile Technology Control Regime in the Aspect of Private Space Company Activities

• Author: Valentyn Halunko, Yurii Buhlak, and Oleg Pauk
• Position: Doctor of Law, Professor, Editor-in-Chief of Academic Journal 'Advanced Space Law', President of Company 'Scien?e and Space' (Kyiv, Ukraine)/Ph.D. in Law, a Doctoral Student, Donetsk Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine)/Ph.D. student, Institute of Technical Mechanics of the National Academy of ...
• Pages: 34-47

Advanced Space Law, Volume 5, 2020

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International Legal Regulation of the Missile

Technology Control Regime in the Aspect

of Private Space Company Activities

Valentyn Halunko1

Doctor of Law, Professor, Editor-in-Chief of Academic Journal “Advanced Space Law”,

President of Company “Scienсe and Space” (Kyiv, Ukraine)

E-mail: scinspace@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1619-5028

Yurii Buhlak2

Ph.D. in Law, a Doctoral Student, Donetsk Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal

Aairs of Ukraine (Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine)

E-mail: buglack@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0428-0121

Oleg Pauk3

Ph.D. student, Institute of Technical Mechanics of the National Academy

of Sciences of Ukraine (Dnipro, Ukraine)

E-mail: paykoleg@gmail.com

Halunko, Valentyn, Yurii Buhlak, and Oleg Pauk (2020) International Legal Regulation of

the Missile Technology Control Regime in the Aspect of Private Space Company Activities.

Advanced Space Law, Volume 5, 34-47. https://doi.org/10.29202/asl/2020/5/4

In the article, the analysis of the provisions of the Missile Technology Control Regime enables to

conclude that it requires to be amended, or, which is better, replaced by a new high-level international

legal treaty. The authors reveal that classic civilian launch vehicles built by private space companies

have a common good for humanity; in particular, they increase the chance of human survival as a

result of global natural or human-made disasters. The authors conclude that a new paradigm should

be implemented: from restraining the transfer of rocket technology to encouraging this process by space

© Halunko, Valentyn, 2020

© Buhlak, Yurii, 2020

© Pauk, Oleg, 2020