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International law

• The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 (revised 1979), the pre-wave basis for space operations.
• The Kandor Treaty, the agreement between Earth and the Fen that provides the basis of Fenspace.

International organizations

• United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)[1]
• European Space Agency (ESA)[2]

The Space Powers

The Space Powers are the nations which had independent space launch capability before handwavium. They are also generally considered to be some of the largest and most powerful nations on the planet.

The "Big Three" nations

These three agencies had not only space launch capability, but could launch humans into orbit pre-wave.

• Russian Federal Space Agency (FKA/RKA/Roskosmos)[3]
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• China National Space Administration (CNSA)[4]

Independent launch capability

• ESA maintains launch capability on behalf of the various member states.
• Taiwan National Space Organization (NSPO)[5]
• Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)[6]
• Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
• Israel Space Agency (ISA)[7]
• Solomon Space Agency

The rest of the herd

• Wikipedia's list of space agencies

Handwavium research

more boilerplate goes here --Mal-3 19:45, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

• The Transrationality Science Assessment Bureau (TSAB), the American agency responsible for handwavium studies. TSAB has taken over most of America's space operations from NASA.
• The Extraordinary Events Agency, the EU/UK(needs clarifying) counterpart to TSAB.
• (something Chinese ought to go here @ some point -Mal)
• (ditto Japan, India & Russia - Mal) (JAXA SPACY for Japan, maybe? –Rob)

Notes