Space Law Treaties

Space Law Treaties in the United States

U.S. BILATERAL TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS

ARGENTINA-U.S.

  • Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and
    Argentina concerning the fight of the SAC-A Mission on the (NASA
    space) shuttle, October 16, 1997

AUSTRALIA-U.S.

  • Agreement providing for the continuation of a cooperative program
    facilitating space flight operations, May 29, 1980; with amendments
    of July 21, 1981 and January 17, 1990; May 2, 1990

BRAZIL-U.S.

  • Agreement for use of the Geostationary Operational Environmental
    Satellite in the Brazilian national plan for data collection platforms
    between the government of the United States of America and the
    government of the Federative Republic of Brazil, June 14, 1982
  • Memorandum of Understanding between the government of the
    United States of America and the government of the Federative
    Republic of Brazil concerning cooperation in aerospace experiments
    employing sounding rockets, January 31, 1983
  • Implementing arrangement between the United States and Brazil
    for the design, development, operation, and use of flight equipment
    and payloads for the International Space Station Program, October 14, 1997
  • Multilateral agreement between Brazil and the United States on
    technology safeguards associated with U.S. participation in
    launches from the Alcantara Spaceport, April 18, 2000

CANADA-U.S.

  • Agreement relating to a cooperative program concerning the
    development and procurement of a space shuttle attached remote
    manipulator system, June 23, 1976; with Memorandum of
    Understanding, July 18, 1975
  • Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the National
    Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Ministry of State
    for Science and Technology for a cooperative program concerning
    detailed definition and preliminary design (Phase B) of a
    permanently manned space station, April 16, 1985
  • Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and
    Canada concerning cooperation in the light of the Canadian
    measurements of pollution in the troposphere (MOPITT)
    instrument on the NASA Polar Orbiting Platform and related
    support for an international earth observing system, with
    appendix, November 15, 1994
  • Agreement between the United States and Canada concerning the
    training of mission specialists for space shuttle flights, with
    implementing agreement, May 17, 1996
  • Memorandum of Understanding between the National Aeronautics
    and Space Administration of the United States of America and the
    Canadian Space Agency concerning cooperation on the Civil International Space Station

CHINA-U.S.

  • Agreement between the United States and China on liability for
    satellite launches, December 17, 1988
  • Agreement between the United States and China regarding
    international trade in commercial launch services, with annex,
    January 26, 1989
  • Memorandum of Agreement between the United States and China
    on satellite technology safeguards, February 11, 1993
  • Memorandum of Agreement between the government of the United
    States of America and the government of the People’s Republic of
    China regarding international trade in commercial launch
    services, March 13, 1995
  • People’s Republic of China—China’s space activities (white paper)
    Beijing, November, 2000

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY-U.S.

  • Memorandum of Understanding between the National Aeronautics
    and Space Administration and the European Space Agency for the
    conduct of parallel detailed definition and preliminary design
    studies (Phase B) leading toward further cooperation in the
    development, operation, and utilization of a permanently manned
    space station, June 3, 1985
  • Agreement between the U.S and the European Space Agency
    concerning space shuttle flight activities in the launch and
    retrieval of the European retrieval carrier spacecraft, Oct. 3, 1991
  • Agreement between the French Government and the European
    Space Agency concerning the Guiana Space Centre, November 29, 1993
  • Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and the
    European Space Agency enabling early utilization opportunities of
    the International Space Station, March 18, 1997

GERMANY-U.S.

  • Memorandum of Understanding between the United States
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Federal
    Minister for Research and Technology of the Federal Republic of
    Germany on the Roentgensatellit Project, August 8, 1982
  • Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and
    Germany for participation in the German geoscience challenging
    mini-satellite payload for geoscientic research and applications
    (CHAMP) program, July 31, 1997

HUNGARY-U.S.

  • Agreement between the government of the United States of
    America and the government of the Republic of Hungary on
    cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful
    purposes, May 14, 2001

ITALY-U.S.

  • Agreement between the government of Italy and the government of
    the United States of America concerning the launching of NASA
    satellites from San Marco Range Agreement

JAPAN-U.S.

  • Memorandum of Understanding between the National Space
    Development Agency of Japan and the United States Department
    of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
    August 11, 1983
  • Memorandum of Understanding between the United States
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Science
    and Technology Agency of Japan for the cooperative program
    concerning detailed definition and preliminary design activities of
    a permanently manned space station, May 9, 1985
  • Agreement between the United States and Japan concerning
    collaboration in the Space Flyer Unit (SFU) Program, February 4,
    1994; Memorandum of Understanding between the National
    Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States of
    America and the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of
    the Monbusho of Japan concerning activities related to the Space
    Flyer Unit Program, February 7, 1994
  • Agreement between the United States and Japan for cooperation in
    the Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS) program,
    October 25, 1994; with amendment of June 10, 1996
  • Agreement between the United States and Japan concerning cross-waiver
    of liability for cooperation in the exploration and use of
    space for peaceful purposes, with annex and exchanges of notes, April 24, 1995
  • Agreement between the United States and Japan concerning
    cooperation on the Mars Exploration PLANET-B program, with
    Memorandum of Understanding, June 29, 1998
  • Memorandum of Understanding between the National Aeronautics
    and Space Administration of the United States of America (NASA)
    and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency for the X-Ray
    Astronomy Satellite (ASTRO-EII) project, June 23, 2005
  • Memorandum of Understanding between the National Aeronautics
    and Space Administration of the United States of America (NASA)
    and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency for cooperation on
    the formulation activity of the Global Precipitation Measurement
    program, June 27, 2005
  • Memorandum of Understanding between the National Aeronautics
    and Space Administration of the United States of America (NASA)
    and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency concerning activities
    related to the Solar Physics Satellite (SOLAR B) project, June 21, 2005

MEXICO-U.S.

  • Agreement between the United States and Mexico concerning the
    transmission and reception of signals from satellites for the
    provision of satellite services to users in the United States and
    Mexico, April 28, 1996; with protocol and exchange of letters, November 8, 1996

MONGOLIA-U.S.

  • Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and
    Mongolia on cooperation in the collection of the 1 kilometer
    advanced very high resolution radiometer image data, March 9, 1993

NORWAY-U.S.

  • Agreement between the United States of American and the
    Kingdom of Norway for cooperation in the civil uses of outer space

RUSSIA-U.S.

  • Agreement between the United States and Russia concerning
    cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful
    purposes, with annex, June 17, 1992; with amendment of August 9, 2002
  • Implementing Agreement between the National Aeronautics and
    Space Administration of the United States of America and the
    Russian Federation on Human Space Flight Co-operation, October
    5, 1992; with protocol of December 16, 1993
  • Interim Agreement between the United States and Russia for the
    conduct of activities leading to Russian partnership in the detailed
    design, development, operation and utilization of the permanently
    manned civil space station, June 23, 1994
  • Agreement between the United States and Russia regarding
    international trade in commercial space launches services,
    September 2, 1993; with amendment of January 30, 1996
  • Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and
    Russia on cooperation relating to the Space Biomedical Center for
    training and research in the Russian Federation, with annex, June 30, 1995
  • Protocol between the National Aeronautics and Space
    Administration (NASA) of the United States of America and the
    Russian Space Agency (RSA) including terms, conditions and
    assumptions, summary balance of contributions and obligations to
    the International Space Station (ISS) and resulting rights of
    NASA and RSA to ISS utilization accommodations and resources,
    and flight opportunities

SEYCHELLES-U.S.

  • Agreement between the United States and Seychelles relating to
    the establishment, operating and maintenance of a tracking and
    telemetry facility on the island of Mahe, June 29, 1976; with
    amendments of June 29, 1981; June 15, 1990

SPAIN-U.S.

  • Agreement between the U.S. and Spain regarding tracking stations,
    January 29, 1964; with Interpreting Agreement of October 11,
    1965; and with amendment of May 2, 1983

UKRAINE-U.S.

  • Agreement between the United States and Ukraine regarding
    international trade in commercial space launch services, with
    protocol, annex and exchange of letters, February 21, 1996
  • Agreement on technology safeguards associated with Ukrainian
    launch vehicles, missile equipment and technical data for the “Sea
    Launch” program, September 29, 1999

UNITED KINGDOM-U.S.

  • Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and the
    United Kingdom relating to a satellite-aided maritime distress
    alert system, July 23, 1981

USSR-U.S.

  • Agreement between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. concerning
    cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful
    purposes, April 15, 1987; with exchange of notes, May 31, 1988
  • Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of the
    Soviet Socialist Republics on the limitation of anti-ballistic missile
    system, signed May 26, 1972, proclaimed on October 3, 1972

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