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Whether HMG consider the ongoing US Airborne Laser Programme to be fully compliant with the Space Treaty and with the Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty system depends and whether there are any British participants in the Boeing ABM Programme, or any British funding.

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Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
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Answered
Date
20 March 1997
Reference
579 c82WA
House
House of Lords

What are the present arrangements for space use management and planning, given reports in Aviation Week passim that more than 1,000 satellites are to be put in low earth orbit between now and the year 2001 and the presence in orbit of vehicles and debris, which are hazard to other...

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 February 1997
Reference
578 c17WA
House
House of Lords

What are the definitions of "outer space" currently in use, whose definitions they are, whether the military satellites of the United States, Russia and other countries are now operating in "outer space", and if not where, in international law, they are operating.

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
13 November 1996
Reference
575 c101WA
House
House of Lords

Why the United Kingdom and other West European governments abstained from the United Nations General Assembly vote in favour of the prevention of an arms race in space and whether this abstention indicates indifference to the militarisation of space in spite of the provisions of Article 1 of the Space...

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
12 November 1996
Reference
575 c91WA
House
House of Lords

Whether the 1967 Space Treaty gives the right to individual states to conduct unlimited military espionage and target acquisition on other sovereign states and to develop triggering systems for weapons in or below "outer space"; and, if so, whether they will cite the passages in the treaty text which they...

Asked by
Lord Kennet (Labour)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
12 November 1996
Reference
575 c91WA
House
House of Lords