7.6 Outer Space Treaties to which Nepal is Party

Nepal's space-treaty wardrobe: the Outer Space Treaty 1967 (the signature-party status — the constitutional treaty's ratification); the reading list's other instruments — the Rescue Agreement 1968, the Liability Convention 1972, the Registration Convention 1975, the Moon Agreement 1979 (the parties' statuses to be confirmed against the UN's current tables — the honest statement); the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963 (the syllabus's list — the atmospheric- and-outer-space nuclear tests' ban: the space law's arms-control cousin). Nepal's space engagement's faces (the discussion's material): the NAST (the National Academy of Science and Technology — the space-programme's institutional face); the NepaliSat-1 era (the first Nepali cube-sat — the 2019's launch: the capacity's milestone); the NTA's satellite policy (the communications satellite's procurement debates); the remote-sensing dependence (the disaster- mapping's interests); the Starlink-and-the-satellite-broadband licensing questions of the 2020s; the space-law's teaching-and-policy gaps (the national space law's absence — the reform agenda). Exam Focus Long questions: (i) The two regimes' distinction + the delimitation debate (the table + Karman-vs-function — the unit's banker); (ii) The sovereignty doctrine (the OST's Articles I-IX — the non-appropriation's explanation); (iii) The Liability Convention's absolute-fault ladder (with the Cosmos 954 classic); (iv) The astronauts' protection (the Rescue Agreement's duties). Short questions: the Karman line; Article VI OST; the state of registry; the envoys-of- mankind. Trick areas: (i) The outer-space liability is ABSOLUTE…