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This chapter reviews the extent of Uganda’s participation in space activities. We also review Uganda’s history, economic activities, geographic location and its participation in space related treaties. Uganda faces many challenges as a country in the eastern region of Africa—including but not limited to refugee spill over and old technology and infrastructure that is used in their agricultural sector. We dissect its socio-economic status and the various laws currently in place which are a fulfilment of its international obligations. Uganda has managed to localise international laws in order to advance their economic activities. The most visible of these economic activities stem from the promulgation of the Uganda Communications Act. Activities such as radio and telecommunications plays an important role in the country’s economy.

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  1. 1.

    Uganda High Commission Pretoria, Uganda’s Political History http://www.ugandahighcommissionpretoria.com/Political-History-of-Uganda.html.

  2. 2.

    Wikipedia, Geography of Uganda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Uganda.

  3. 3.

    Forbes Best countries for business https://www.forbes.com/places/uganda/.

  4. 4.

    Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Legal Committee 55th session, “Status of International Agreements relating to activities in outer space as at 1 January 2016,” A/AC.105/C.2/2016/CRP.3, 4 April 2016 http://www.unoosa.org/documents/pdf/spacelaw/treatystatus/AC105_C2_2016_CRP03E.pdf.

  5. 5.

    Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Legal Committee 55th session, “Status of International Agreements relating to activities in outer space as at 1 January 2016,” A/AC.105/C.2/2016/CRP.3, 4 April 2016 http://www.unoosa.org/documents/pdf/spacelaw/treatystatus/AC105_C2_2016_CRP03E.pdf.

  6. 6.

    Uganda Communications Act Chapter 106, section 2 http://www.ulii.org/ug/legislation/consolidated-act/106.

  7. 7.

    Uganda legal information institute, Income Tax Amendment Act, 2008, section 86 http://www.ulii.org/ug/legislation/act/2015/4-0.

  8. 8.

    Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) Uganda http://spacegeneration.org/sgac-regions/africa/uganda.html.

  9. 9.

    African Research Space Program http://www.ugandanway.com/asrp/news.php.

  10. 10.

    Science alert, F. Macdonald, “Ethiopia has launched the first space program in East Africa” http://www.sciencealert.com/ethiopia-has-launched-the-first-space-program-in-east-africa.

  11. 11.

    Forbes Best countries for business https://www.forbes.com/places/uganda/.

  12. 12.

    Geospatial technologies are systems that acquire and handle location-specific data about Earth. L. Gilman, Water Encyclopedia http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Ge-Hy/Geospatial-Technologies.html.

  13. 13.

    Ibid.

  14. 14.

    Woodcock, C. E., Strahler, A. H. and Franklin, J. Environmental Management (1983) 7: 223, Remote sensing for land Management and Planning, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01871537.

  15. 15.

    Uganda High Commission Pretoria, Uganda’s Political History http://www.ugandahighcommissionpretoria.com/Political-History-of-Uganda.html.

  16. 16.

    Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Legal Committee 55th session, “Status of International Agreements relating to activities in outer space as at 1 January 2016,” A/AC.105/C.2/2016/CRP.3, 4 April 2016 http://www.unoosa.org/documents/pdf/spacelaw/treatystatus/AC105_C2_2016_CRP03E.pdf.

  17. 17.

    The Statehouse of Uganda, “Past presidents of Uganda—President Idi Amin Dada (Field Marshall)” http://www.statehouse.go.ug/past-presidents/president-idi-amin-dada-field-marshall.

  18. 18.

    Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Legal Committee 55th session, “Status of International Agreements relating to activities in outer space as at 1 January 2016,” A/AC.105/C.2/2016/CRP.3, 4 April 2016 http://www.unoosa.org/documents/pdf/spacelaw/treatystatus/AC105_C2_2016_CRP03E.pdf.

  19. 19.

    Ibid.

  20. 20.

    Uganda Communications Act Chapter 106, section 2 http://www.ulii.org/ug/legislation/consolidated-act/106.

  21. 21.

    Uganda legal info institute, Communications (Radio) Regulations, 2005, promulgated in 6 January 2005, number of SL 2005/23 http://www.ulii.org/ug/legislation/statutory-instrument/2005/200523.

  22. 22.

    Uganda legal info institute, Communications (Radio) Regulations, 2005, promulgated in 6 January 2005, number of SL 2005/23, Section 2(1)(a-b) http://www.ulii.org/ug/legislation/statutory-instrument/2005/200523.

  23. 23.

    Uganda legal info institute, Communications (Radio) Regulations, 2005, promulgated in 6 January 2005, number of SL 2005/23, section 3 http://www.ulii.org/ug/legislation/statutory-instrument/2005/200523.

  24. 24.

    Uganda legal information institute, Communications (Radio) Regulations, 2005, promulgated in 6 January 2005, number of SL 2005/23, Section 5(1-2) http://www.ulii.org/ug/legislation/statutory-instrument/2005/200523.

  25. 25.

    Uganda legal information institute, Finance Act chapter 181, 1993, section 4 http://www.ulii.org/ug/legislation/consolidated-act/181.

  26. 26.

    Uganda legal information institute, Income Tax Amendment Act, 2008, section 86 http://www.ulii.org/ug/legislation/act/2015/4-0.

  27. 27.

    Index of Economic Freedom, 2018 https://www.heritage.org/index/pdf/2018/countries/uganda.pdf.

  28. 28.

    Uganda legal information institute, Telecommunications (Licensing) Regulations, 2005, section 2(a) and (b) http://www.ulii.org/ug/legislation/statutory-instrument/2005/20.

  29. 29.

    Uganda legal information institute, Telecommunications (Licensing) Regulations 2005, section 1(a)(d) and (f) http://www.ulii.org/ug/legislation/statutory-instrument/2005/20.

  30. 30.

    Africa and middle eat telecom-week, Uganda—Telecoms, Mobile, Broadband and Forecasts http://www.africantelecomsnews.com/Products/Uganda-Telecoms_Mobile_Broadband_Forecasts.shtml.

  31. 31.

    Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) Uganda http://spacegeneration.org/sgac-regions/africa/uganda.html.

  32. 32.

    African Research Space Program http://www.ugandanway.com/asrp/news.php.

  33. 33.

    Science alert, F. Macdonald, “Ethiopia has launched the first space program in East Africa” http://www.sciencealert.com/ethiopia-has-launched-the-first-space-program-in-east-africa.

  34. 34.

    Science alert, F. Macdonald, “Ethiopia has launched the first space program in East Africa” http://www.sciencealert.com/ethiopia-has-launched-the-first-space-program-in-east-africa.

  35. 35.

    Wikipedia, Geography of Uganda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Uganda.

  36. 36.

    Forbes Best countries for business https://www.forbes.com/places/uganda/.

  37. 37.

    The state house of Uganda, Uganda budget speech 2015/2016, 11 June 2015, fifth session of the 9th parliament of Uganda http://www.statehouse.go.ug/media/speeches/2015/06/11/uganda-budget-20152016.

  38. 38.

    Secure World Foundation, “The Global Nature of Space Activities” https://swfound.org/space-sustainability-101/the-global-nature-of-space-activities/.

  39. 39.

    Secure World Foundation, “Handbook for New Actors in Space” https://swfound.org/handbook/.

  40. 40.

    United Nations office for outer space affairs, Members of the Committee of the Peaceful uses of outer space http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/members/index.html.

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Mookeletsi, O. (2019). Uganda. In: Froehlich, A. (eds) Integrated Space for African Society. Southern Space Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05980-4_17

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