The document summarizes the key sources of law for airspace and outer space. For air law, it lists the 1944 Chicago Convention which established rules for airspace, safety, and rights in air travel. For space law, it outlines the 1967 Outer Space Treaty which bans weapons in space and details rules for peaceful space exploration, as well as the 1968 Rescue Agreement which requires countries to assist astronauts in distress. National laws and regulations as well as customary international law also apply to both domains.
The document summarizes the key sources of law for airspace and outer space. For air law, it lists the 1944 Chicago Convention which established rules for airspace, safety, and rights in air travel. For space law, it outlines the 1967 Outer Space Treaty which bans weapons in space and details rules for peaceful space exploration, as well as the 1968 Rescue Agreement which requires countries to assist astronauts in distress. National laws and regulations as well as customary international law also apply to both domains.
The document summarizes the key sources of law for airspace and outer space. For air law, it lists the 1944 Chicago Convention which established rules for airspace, safety, and rights in air travel. For space law, it outlines the 1967 Outer Space Treaty which bans weapons in space and details rules for peaceful space exploration, as well as the 1968 Rescue Agreement which requires countries to assist astronauts in distress. National laws and regulations as well as customary international law also apply to both domains.
Warsaw Convention 1929, Montreal 1999, Rome Rescue Agreement 1968 1953 (liability) Tokyo Convention 19611 progeny (security) Liability Convention 1972 Other aviation multilateral & bilateral treaties Registration Convention 1976 Customary International Law Moon Treaty 1979 National laws and regulation Customary International Law National laws and regulations
Chicago Convention 1944 : The Convention establishes rules of airspace, aircraft
registration and safety, and details the rights of the signatories in relation to air travel; it also exempts air fuels from tax. The Convention was signed by 52 states on 7 December 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., and came into effect on 4 April 1947. Warsaw Convention 1929 : The Convention for the Unification of certain rules relating to international carriage by air, commonly known as the Warsaw Convention, is an international convention which regulates liability for international carriage of persons, luggage, or goods performed by aircraft for reward. Outer Space Treaty 1967 : The 1967 Outer Space Treaty bans the stationing of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in outer space, prohibits military activities on celestial bodies, and details legally binding rules governing the peaceful exploration and use of space. The treaty entered into force Oct. Rescue Agreement 1968 : Elaborating on elements of articles V and VIII of the Outer Space Treaty (1967), the Rescue Agreement of 1968 provides that States shall take all possible steps to rescue and assist astronauts in distress and promptly return them to the Launching State, and that States shall, upon request, provide assistance to Launching States in recovering space objects that return to Earth outside the territory of the Launching State.