These sets of principles provide for the application of international law and
promotion of international cooperation and understanding in space activities.
Further, they facilitate the dissemination and exchange of information through
transnational direct television broadcasting via satellites and remote satellite
observations of Earth, and promote general standards regulating the safe use of
nuclear power sources necessary for the exploration and use of outer space.
It is generally agreed that resolutions of the General Assembly are
non-binding,26 at least within the traditional analysis of the ‘sources’ of