The members of our team provide support to NewSpace players, who are called upon to lead space activities and are faced with new challenges and new economic and legal models.
NewSpace refers to the recent phenomenon of privatization of extraterrestrial activities by new players (SpaceX, Virgin Galactics…) historically outside the sector, which is reshuffling the cards in an industry and market initially reserved, because regalian, for States.
From space exploration to space operation. The issues raised by NewSpace are overturning the principles derived from the major space treaties which, in the context of Old Space, mainly regulated space exploration activities, whether military, scientific or commercial. Today, these principles appear to be outdated when it comes to regulating space exploitation activities, which are at the heart of NewSpace.
As part of its Newspace business, the firm is called upon to provide the following services:
- Contractual compliance audits,
- Contractual and regulatory audits,
- Definition of legal policies,
- Drafting of contracts and associated documents,
- Drafting and implementation of industrial agreements,
- Drafting of contracts for operators and users of satellite services (contracts for uplink, signal transport, broadcasting, satellite operation, from operator to satellite operator),
- In-orbit service contracts,
- Assistance to national institutions and organizations in international cooperation projects,
- Intervention, as counsel before the ITU and in litigation, within the framework of national and international dispute settlement procedures.