With India’s Moon triumph, lunar space race surges while UN struggles to set guardrails
"More than 100 lunar missions are planned for this decade alone, including many that are commercial," said Jessica West, of Canada's Project Ploughshares.
At home and internationally, ‘governance’ is the space watchword: 2023 Preview
There are a host of open questions bedeviling national and international policy- and law-makers as they struggle to get a better grip on both the explosion of commercial players with innovative ideas for space utilization and the growing military interest in space as a tool of, and venue for, war.
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As danger grows for commercial firms in space, so does call for norms: Aerospace
One critical issue for the commercial space industry identified by the Aerospace study is the potential for their satellites and ground stations to be deliberately targeted.
No love from Russia for UN military space norms meeting
The formal planning meeting adjourned to a private venue after the clock ran out on interpretation services at the Palais de Nations and building management threatened to kill the lights on the diplomatic squabbling.
US rejects charge that Starlink satellites endangered China’s space station
"Clearly an exchange of diplomatic notes is better than an exchange of Twitter fire (or worse). But diplomatic notes won’t fill in the gaps in space governance and traffic safety," Jessica West of Canada's Project Ploughshares said.
Exclusive: UK Pushes New UN Accord On Military Space Norms
The US intends to support the British effort.
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“Tactical operating system” for warfighters has evolved to provide more situational awareness of the battlefield.
US Should Push New Space Treaty: Atlantic Council
"If everybody we talk to is the enemy, and there's a boogeyman behind every question and every opportunity, we're not going to go anywhere," retired Marine Corps Gen. Hoss Cartwright says. "We're frozen."
DoD Faces Tough Decisions On Space Rules
"The understanding of what deterrence is has been misinterpreted, reinterpreted, run through a ringer, chopped up and turned into a hamburger. I mean, it's just that nobody there [at DoD] seems to understand what it means exactly," one former government official said.
New International Partnerships Could Spur Hosted Payloads: Gen. Thompson
SMC is "working on innovative relationships with, believe it or not, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and some other places you wouldn't think of as traditional spacefaring nations," says Gen. DT Thompson, Space Force vice.
Space Force-NASA Accord Highlights Cooperation Beyond Earth Orbit
US discovery and exploitation of rare earth minerals from the Moon and asteroids "could change the balance of power on Earth," enthused NASA Administration Jim Bridenstine.
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Commerce Pursues Space Tracking Role Despite Cuts
O'Connell said that the "silver lining" to the near miss of two defunct US satellites over Pittsburg on Jan. 29 is that "people are beginning to realize that these near misses are taking place much more frequently."
US Tightens Space Debris Standards; Keeps 25-Year Cap
The updated debris rules address new space activities such as mega-constellations, Cubesats and satellite servicing.
Fearing Isolation, Russia Caves on UN Space Guidelines
The next hurdle may be bringing the military/intelligence community on board because the often norms "do not translate into rules of engagement," says Carissa Christensen, CEO of Bryce Space & Technology.