Space Law Research
Space traffic management
A member of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL), Guillaume Loonis Quélen contributes to the work of its working group on space traffic management, drawing in particular on maritime practice as a point of comparison.
Space debris
In November 2024, he attended the United Nations Conference on Space Law and Policy in Vienna. There he took part in the breakout group on debris mitigation and remediation (conference report, UN document A/AC.105/1352).
Distress communications, health and safety
In 2024 he published a study in the Journal of Space Safety Engineering on the interoperability of lunar distress communications under the Artemis Accords, in comparison with international search and rescue systems. In addition, his proposal for a database of national legislation on health and safety is set out in conference room paper A/AC.105/2024/CRP.18, prepared for the June 2024 session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.
Export controls and modernising space law
He has also spoken on the export control regimes of France, the United States and China, which he presented at the European Space Agency in 2024. In Abidjan, in 2023, he presented the modernisation of space law drawing on the example of maritime instruments.
Other research themes: maritime law and civil nuclear law.