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Trust and Trade · Apr 14, 2025 · 26 min

#44 Space Antitrust

Can antitrust law keep up with the rapidly evolving space industry? This episode of Trust and Trade examines the challenges in maintaining a level playing field in space travel, satellite launches, and deep-space exploration. Space law expert Maria Rhimbassen and antitrust expert Dylan Carson join Anant Raut and co-host Amanda Norton to discuss government intervention, market monopolization, and the legal gaps in space regulation. Can we rely on the free market to preserve competition in space? Or is the race to become an interstellar species winner-take-all? With special guests: Maria Rhimbassen, Researcher, University of Toulouse and Dylan Carson, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP Related Links: From Toxic to Noble Competition: Implementing a New Perspective of Antitrust in Outer Space Based on Ethics and Beyond Hosted by: Anant Raut and Amanda Norton

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Can antitrust law keep up with the rapidly evolving space industry? This episode of Trust and Trade examines the challenges in maintaining a level playing field in space travel, satellite launches, and deep-space exploration. Space law expert Maria Rhimbassen and antitrust expert Dylan Carson join Anant Raut and co-host Amanda Norton to discuss government intervention, market monopolization, and the legal gaps in space regulation. Can we rely on the free market to preserve competition in space? Or is the race to become an interstellar species winner-take-all?

With special guests:

Maria Rhimbassen, Researcher, University of Toulouse and Dylan Carson, Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP

Related Links:

From Toxic to Noble Competition: Implementing a New Perspective of Antitrust in Outer Space Based on Ethics and Beyond

Hosted by:

Anant Raut and Amanda Norton

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