Suborbital Activities in the United Kingdom, Australian, New Zealand, Italian and UAE Domestic Law

This Chapter examines legal developments of the last two decades in countries with diverse cultural and legal traditions, such as the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, and their responses to the regulations adopted in the United States, which are recognized and used as the regulatory model for their own domestic space laws. The Chapter attempts to analyze these sets of domestic regulations using the same criteria as previously applied to the U.S. space law, and assesses their potential as model regulations for other jurisdictions.