National Space Activities: Modern Realities and Legal Challenges

• Author: Vasyl Semenyaka
• Position: Ph.D. in Law, Senior Researcher, V.M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law of NAS of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)
• Pages: 91-100

Advanced Space Law, Volume 5, 2020 91

National Space Activities: Modern Realities

and Legal Challenges

Vasyl Semenyaka1

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Researcher, V.M. Koretsky Institute of State

and Law of NAS of Ukraine

(Kyiv, Ukraine)

E-mail: v.semenyaka@ukr.net

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1621-9694

Semenyaka, Vasyl (2020) National Space Activities: Modern Realities and Legal Challenges.

Advanced Space Law, Volume 5, 91-100. https://doi.org/10.29202/asl/2020/5/9

The article studies the current state of aairs in national space activities. The legal problems facing the

space industry at the present stage, the mechanism of their solution are analyzed. The author highlights the

crucial issue, which requires an immediate solution regarding the location of the launch site for domestic

space objects. The special role of the State in ensuring the legal conditions for the development of national

space activities, which should be carried out using good in law modern methods and means of public

regulation, is determined. Nowadays, the legislation of Ukraine on space activities requires signicant

changes and additions, taking into account the new space realities and instruments for the development

of public relations in the eld of space exploration and use. The author argues that a strategy for the

development of space activities in Ukraine, public administration of the space industry, as well as ensuring

its restructuring require a substantial rethinking and improvement. The relevance of the legal framework

for the creation and use of space defense and dual-use space technology in the interests of the national

security and defense sector is underlined. The author argues that the Concept of Ukrainian law reform

on space activities, including the legal rationale for choosing the optimal behavior model regarding the

solution of complex legal problems based on modern space-legal doctrine and practice of space relations,

should be developed.

Keywords: space law, space relations, space activity, launch site, launch vehicle, spacecraft.

Received: March 11, 2020; accepted: April 17, 2020

© Semenyaka, Vasyl, 2020