0191 -9067/82/020145-05$03.00/0 Copyright ® 1982 SUNS AT Energy Council ECOSPACE II EDWARD R. FINCH Finch & Schaefler, Attorneys 36 West 44th Street New York, NY 10036, USA Abstract — Outer space holds the keys to world peace. Outer space is also the key in the development of old and new global resources for the whole Earth. It is the key to world energy and materials. We have a serious global resources shortage conflict. Look at minerals and energy. Look at phosphate for fertilizer and food. The position of President Reagan for the new United States space policy is reviewed. The superpowers in outer space, and the LDC's position in the global resources conflict is reviewed from the point of view of existing and pending international treaties. The legal principles for a suggested model for the proposed “international regime" for the future, in the interest of the superpowers, and the LDC is presented. The policy basis for “international regimes” for global resources is proposed, bearing in mind the economic interests of private enterprise and governments, in common law, socialist law, and communist law countries, known as Ecospace. With the launch of the United States Space Shuttle, a new era in outer space has begun. Pollution-free energy from outer space is one of the compelling factors in the future of Ecospace — the economics of outer space activity. This concept was first explored in depth at the American Bar Association's annual meeting in August, 1975, by the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Aerospace Panel and at formal meetings constituting the ABA Presidential Program. How fast mankind advances in SPS in outer space is controlled by Ecospace. Rockwell International Space Operations and Satellite Systems Division projects a photovoltaic 15 GW solar power satellite with eight pivoting panels and two transmitting antennas at cost of $1458/kW. Estimated cost of electricity at utility interface between 2.50 and 10? per kWh. The U.S. space shuttle success opens the way to push SPS priority now for pollution-free energy for Earth by 1995. The new less costly Ametcck solar cell is another “go” step for the SPS program. It is also very efficient. The Solar Energy Research Institute of Golden, Colorado, in 1981, pushed full concentration on cost reduction of photovoltaic cells. International outer space law, and international outer space science and technology must advance together as in the past. With the U.S. Space Shuttle leap forward, why not a new bilateral U.S.-U.S.S.R. Executive Agreement on Shuttle-Salyut for a joint SPS project on a joint support basis? This would advance world peace. The 24th International Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space (IISL) at the IAF XXXII Congress in Rome for scientists and lawyers of many nations has as its first topic the item “Legal Implications of Economic Activities” in space. In the United States, a common law country, there has been an increasing number of formal and informal seminars and publications on this topic during the years 1980 and 1981. The 1979 United Nations Moon Treaty, already signed by twelve countries and now open
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