
Nations that damage satellites are ripe for legal challenge under the 1972 Liability Convention to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST), NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine suggested on Sept. 22. In a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies' Aerospace Nation discussion with Air Force Gen. John "Jay" Raymond, chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force (USSF), Bridenstine, a former Republican representative from Oklahoma and a retired U.S. Navy pilot, said that both NASA and USSF are "very committed to adhering…