UAE's Entry into the Space League: Analysing the Legal Spectrum

UAE's National Space Strategy 2030 is in alliance with the country's policies and national strategy and aims to achieve its vision in the various area of explorations of space, space-technologies and space-innovations. Along with this, UAE has come up with their space policy and is in the process of finalising their space sector law and space regulations. UAE is also a State party to three of the main international space law treaties. The country is seeking to establish itself as a major player globally and create a hub for space science and technology. To achieve this, the country has already began investing in capability building and also creating a conducive environment- scientific, legal and financial, which can attract future space projects and encouraging large scale investment both in public and private sectors. In this back drop it is pertinent to analyse the international obligations that UAE have under the various space treaties, conventions and norms which it has committed to abide by.