@ARTICLE{Łukaszuk_Leonard_Ships_2015, author={Łukaszuk, Leonard}, number={No XXXI}, pages={129-137}, journal={Prawo Morskie}, howpublished={online}, year={2015}, publisher={Oddział PAN w Gdańsku}, abstract={The article gives an account of a legally unprecedented instance of utilisation of offshore platform ‘Odyssey’ and her accompanying ship ‘Sea Launch Commander’ for launching satellites into orbit. The platform is operated by an international partnership company called ‘Sea Launch’, which unites commercial undertakings within space and maritime industries from USA, Russia, Ukraine and Norway. The article discusses selected legal issues arising in areas of law of the sea, admiralty and space law, as well as issues relating to coordination of partners’ efforts in legal and administrative spheres. The company eventually went through bankruptcy (Chapter 11) procedure; the author investigates legal and economic causes of this matter. Finally, the article iterates proposal for a new international convention on space transport, which would include a comprehensive regulation on launching objects into space from offshore facilities.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Ships and offshore platforms as space launch facilities — selected legal issuesas illustrated by Sea Launch}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/93366/mainfile.pdf}, }