Rocket & Samara
Rocket, have you thought about how the Outer Space Treaty might be exploited to give private companies a legal loophole for interplanetary launches?
You think they can just slip past the treaty, right? The trick is, the treaty says no nation can claim a celestial body, but it doesn’t forbid private firms from launching stuff under a national flag. If a country signs a treaty and then lets a private company launch, the company technically uses the national flag but is still a private entity. It’s like a loophole that could let a space startup claim “we’re just a private ship,” even though we’re still under a country’s jurisdiction. So yeah, if a company is clever, they can game the system by launching from a state that has signed the treaty and claiming their own legal skin. But who knows if the space law world will bite?