According to the project website, Asgardia “will offer an independent platformfree from the constraint of a land-based country’s laws. At present, the Outer Space Treaty that underpins international space law states that responsibility and liability for objects sent into space lies with the nation that launched them. But the project team claim that Asgardia will set a new precedent, shifting responsibility to the new “space nation” itself. “But there are formidable obstacles in international space law for them to overcome. What they are actually advocating is a complete re-visitation of the current space law framework.”Ashurbeyli says the hope is that Asgardia will eventually become an official “launch state”.

Source: The Guardian October 12, 2016 14:50 UTC