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Access to space technology has changed dramatically in the past 10 years. Traditionally, access to space capabilities required dedicated receivers and significant investment. With the advent of new information technologies that incorporate and disseminate the benefits of space directly to users, access to space technology is no longer so exclusive. As the seamless delivery of space capabilities, from navigation and position to data flows, makes it difficult to distinguish space capabilities from other information infrastructures, legal structures developed to govern space technologies are being forced into contact with a variety of other legal structures. Legal questions abound as new markets, innovative technologies, and increased data access emerge, and the lex specialis of space accommodates these trends. This book investigates how traditional space law is developing as space technology enters the daily lives of individuals everywhere.

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P.J. Blount, Ph.D. (Global Affairs, Rutgers University, 2016) is a Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University. He has published widely on both space law and cyberspace governance, including Reprogramming the World: Cyberspace and the Geography of Global Order (e-IR, 2019). Professor Dr. Mahulena Hofmann is holder of the SES Chair in Space, SatCom and Media Law at the University of Luxembourg and director of the Master Program in Space, Communication and Media Law. She also lectures international law at the Charles University in Prague. She is author of more than 100 articles and seven books, including an Introduction to Space Law published with Tanja Masson-Zwaan in 2019.

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