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DLA Piper

Italy’s Chamber of Deputies Approves Draft Law on Space Economics: Legal Insight

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On 6 March 2025, Italy’s Chamber of Deputies approved a draft law on Space Economics, submitted by the Prime Minister and the Ministro delle Imprese e del Made in Italy, which has now been sent to the Senate for final...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Akin Space Law, Regulation and Policy Update | March 7, 2025

Good Afternoon! It was a busy couple of weeks on the Moon! Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost became the second commercial spacecraft to successfully land on the Moon. It later achieved another first by successfully acquiring and...more

Hogan Lovells

Space Sector Update: Next steps for modernising regulation of On-Orbit Servicing in the UK

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Following on from the UK Government’s “Space Industrial Plan” released in March 2024, the UK Government is taking steps to overhaul its approach to regulating on-orbit servicing. The aim being to modernise the 50 year-old...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Space Law, Regulation and Policy Update | January 10, 2025

Good Afternoon! It was quite the holiday season for space: the FCC rounded out the year with a great gift, allocating additional spectrum for commercial launch and reentry vessels, and the Parker Solar Probe’s record-breaking...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

“Small” Space Companies: Growth Comes at a Cost

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Space has become central to protecting U.S. national security interests as Americans increasingly rely on space-based services to support everyday life. As a result, the U.S. government has bolstered investment in the space...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Benefits of Friends: Removing Space Export Controls for Allies (Part III of IV)

You know who your friends are. You’ve known them for a long time, you understand one another, and, importantly, you trust each other. Well, countries have friends too. Maybe country-friends have similar foreign and...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The London Space Law Symposium

On 9 May 2024, Skadden held the inaugural London Space Law Symposium, where six panels of Skadden representatives and industry experts discussed legal aspects of the new space economy. The event was held in the Naim Dangoor...more

Maynard Nexsen

US Space Force announces "Commercial Space Strategy" to increase competitive advantage

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At the 39TH Space Symposium in Colorado Springs on April 10TH, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman announced the US Space Force’s (USSF) blueprint for integrating private-sector capabilities. This blueprint, dubbed...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

2024 Insights: Other Regulatory Developments

AI in 2024: Monitoring New Regulation and Staying in Compliance With Existing Laws Companies that develop or employ AI tools have to consider proposed AI-specific regulation as well as an array of existing IP, privacy,...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Federal Government Announces Study of U.S. Space Industry with Mandatory Private Sector Participation

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The Department of Commerce (Commerce), in partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), announced that it was launching a...more

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