Background information: historical and technical: Radio and the geostationary satellite orbit: the rationale for regulation -- The International telecommunication union and the regulation of radio: origins and evolution -- Structure of the space communication law-making process in the international telecommunication union: The Law-making conferences of the international telecommunication union and space communication -- Judicial and advisory organs of the international telecommunication union and space communication -- The Space conferences: ITU conferences: 1959-1965-legal framework for space communication established -- ITU conference: 1971-1977-legal principles for space communication extended -- ITU conferences: 1979-1983-from principle to practice -- The 1985 space conference-to "guarantee in practice" equitable access to space communication -- Special space communication topics: Direct broadcast satellites and the evolution in the United Nations of international space law

1. Artifical satellites in telecommunication -- Law and legislation
2. Space law
3. International Telecommunication Union