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Deep Dive – The Moon Is No Longer a Legal Abstraction
How Artemis II, competing lunar blocs, and a fractured UN process are forcing the hardest question in international space law: can states defend what they build on the Moon without claiming it? — — — On 6 April 2026, four astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft completed a seven-hour crewed flyby of the Moon — the
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Why the US is so unhappy with the EU Space Act, and what to do about it
Context: The European Commission formally published the proposal for a regulation on the “safety, resilience and sustainability of space activities” (the EU Space Act) on 25 June 2025. Adoption is not expected before “late 2028,” given the complexity and the broader competitiveness and sovereignty agenda into which the Act fits, and application would likely start