Abstract
The purpose of this article is to analyse UK’s national space legislation, the Outer Space Act 1986, based on a developed analytical framework. Based on the analysis of the UK’s national space legislation, the Outer Space Act 1986, it can be concluded that the Act does not fully contain the provisions needed to fulfil the UK’s key international obligations, and as such is insufficient to meet the UK’s key international obligations. Those key international obligations require the UK to control the space activities that those under the UK’s jurisdiction wish to undertake and to continue supervising them through to their end, require the UK to be internationally responsible and liable for all space activities carried out both by its governmental agencies and non-governmental entities, require registration of the UK’s space objects within its national registry and require the UK to encourage international cooperation amongst the participants of its space-related activities.