Basic Space Law News Today

The Air Self-Defense Force is expanding its operations in space to protect Japan’s satellites--increasingly important tools for the country’s security strategy--from “junk,” “killers” and “stalkers.”

The U.S.-Japan Space Pact will enable more rapid collaboration between both countries’ civil space programs.

The coming ispace lunar landing would mark a paradigm shift in space operations – something Japan has seen coming for over a decade.

The United States and its allies are at risk of missile attack from a growing number of states and nonstate terrorist organizations. This growing threat is particularly clear in East Asia, where diplomacy has failed to stop North Korea from developing nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them on target, and where China continues the most active nuclear force modernization program in the world. To counter these growing threats, the U.S. should work with its allies, including South Korea an...

The government and Self-Defense Forces are looking to mount an active defense in the space, cyberspace and electromagnetic spectrum fields.