Public Administration of German Space Programs

• Author: Iryna Orlovska and Kateryna Solodova
• Position: Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor, Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (Kyiv,Ukraine)/PhD-Student, Institute of public law at the Georg-August-University Goettingen (Goettingen, Germany)
• Pages: 83-96

Advanced Space Law, Volume 3, 2019 83

Public Administration of German Space Programs

Iryna Orlovska1

Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor, Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine (Kyiv,Ukraine).

E-mail: Orlovska27-09@ukr.net

https//orcid.org/0000-0001-9266-7416

Kateryna Solodova2

PhD-Student, Institute of public law at the Georg-August-University Goettingen

(Goettingen, Germany)

E-mail: solodova_kateryna@ukr.net

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9878-2802

The author of the article shows that the planning of administration of space programs in Germany is

at a high level. However, the implementation of space programs requires improvement in order to attract

investments from private businesses to this process. The authors prove that it is for this purpose that

the system of sources of space law, on which the implementation of space programs is based, requires

systematic improvement. The authors prove that in the context of globalization and the reduction of the

Asian space powers lag from the European ones, only the wide involvement of private capital in the Ger-

man space industry will provide competitive advantages in the market of space services.

Keywords: space programs, space science, space law, European Space Agency, German space Agen-

cy, public administration.

Received: January 24, 2018; accepted: February 26, 2019

Advanced Space Law, Volume 3, 2019: 83-96.

https://doi.org/10.29202/asl/2019/3/7

Introduction

In our article, we will develop the theory and practical aspects of the legal system of public

administration of space programs of Germany. This problem is Central because: rst, Germa-

ny is the leading space power of the EU and a member of ESA, which has an excellently de-

veloped space science, a variety of space technologies and the corresponding space production

business, which can produce together with its partners the entire cycle of space carriers, satel-

lites and other space objects and devices; secondly, the entry into the arena of space services of

© Orlovska, Iryna, 2019

© Solodova, Kateryna, 2019