THE RESPONSE TO ULTIMATUM MUST BE HARD

Bagrov Aleksandr Viktorovich, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Leading Researcher, NPO Lavochkina JSC

Abstract

US put forward provoked space claims to spread national US laws to the Moon as a “sphere of national interest”, and proposed to revise international treaties concerning space by its satellites and without Russia and China. The necessity of such revision for legalization commercial space activity is obvious. Russia must take part in this process, and it must care for its own interests. To base it, Russia has to indicate these interests in the Federal Space Program and other states doctrines. The material is the text of a report at the I International Scientific and Practical Conference “Space Philosophy – Space Law – Space Activities: Trinity of Humanity’s Space Breakthrough” (May 23, 2020).

KEYWORDS: exploration of the Moon, space law, state interests, space resources.

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