These include activities involving satellite telecommunications, global positioning systems, remote sensing technology for weather forecasting and disaster management, and television broadcast from satellites. Since then, international law has developed to facilitate the use of technologies in a broad range of ways, with the diversity of space activities growing exponentially given the rapidly expanding capabilities of that technology.
What had previously only been within the realm of the hypothetical was suddenly a reality and there was a need to regulate the exploration and use of outer space. The successful launch in 1957 of the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, gave rise to the beginning of the space race. It’s a reminder that space is not yet a regulated space. On Monday, Chinese space station Tiangong-1 fell into to the Pacific Ocean after being out of control for the last two years.
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