Direito espacial no Brasil: a busca por um marco regulatório nacional

Abstract

Society has always found a way to take advantage of experienced events – whether revolutions or wars – to promote its own development. In its wake, technology has also improved, providing things that less than a century ago were not even conceived, such as the arrival of man on the moon. rhythms and social courses. From the catastrophic events that occurred during World War II, countries joined together to create the United Nations (UN), which began to delimit issues relating to human life around the world, including the subsequent Cold War and Space Race. Concerned about how the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America would use space, the UN created the United Nations Committee for the Peaceful Use of Outer Space (COPUOS). From the committee meetings, International Treaties and Conventions were created, which would guide the exploration and use of outer space. On the other hand, considering that Brazil is a signatory to some of these international agreements, why would there be a need to create national legislation to address the matter again? Countries like the United States, even though they are part of such pacts, have moved towards adopting national laws for the improvement of space regulation, in order to make their scientific and commercial operations viable. Brazil, in turn, even though it has its own modernized structure to carry out such activities, such as the Alcântara Launch Center and the Space Operations Center in Brasília-DF, lacks a legal framework to promote space initiatives in its territory . Faced with this scenario, it is essential to bring to light the benefits that the eventual filling of the legal gap would bring to society, through the deductive method, and also the necessary instruments to achieve this positivization.