ABSTRACT
Space law is divisible into various elements and aspects. It has a public international law aspect and a private international law aspect, a national law aspect and hybrid aspects where these categories merge. It manifests within municipal legal systems as these cope with domestic problems of space within a particular municipal or domestic legal system, and as they seek to implement relevant international law within that legal system. Such are the sources of the ‘space law’ which we seek to deal with. In this chapter we treat of these elements seriatim in general before taking up particular issues in the chapters which follow.
