To the issue of drawing a Space-based Weapons Deployment Ban treaty draft

Abstract

The article deals with a problem of the correspondence of the contemporary international space law to the today’s realities.
The commercialization of human activities in space, the appearance of new subject of the space law, the ecologic problems in space put new questions before the scientists.
The problem of banning of the military activities in the space has become more urgent today then ever before. The following article analyses the USA and the Russian Federation’s positions in this field.