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How Joe Biden can galvanize space diplomacy POLITICO 1/15/2021 © Drew Angerer/Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden. The potential for future conflicts to originate in outer space, or for terrestrial conflicts to extend there, has grown as various governments are developing an array of counterspace weapons. The explosion of commercial space activity has also raised the risk of damaging incidents in space. These developments have renewed interest in the role that international norms of re...

US Air Force/United Launch Alliance President-elect Joe Biden will enter office and face a panoply of challenges all over the world, in addition to an array of problems at home. But growing competition in space, on which everyday life is increasingly reliant, presents a long-term challenge that the US needs to address, writes Stewart Patrick, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. President-elect Joe Biden is a down-to-earth guy, but the fate of the h...

Artemis Accords: A Step Toward International Cooperation or Further Competition? NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine gives remarks on the agency’s Artemis program (NASA HQ, https://flic.kr/p/2hXcxV6; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/). On Oct. 13, the Artemis Accords Principles for a Safe, Peaceful, and Prosperous Future, commonly referred to as the Artemis Accords, were signed by their eight founding member states: Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg,...

THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS SPACE ADMINISTRATION TECHNOLOGY POLICY SUBJECT: The National Space Policy Section 1. References. This directive supersedes Presidential Policy Directive – 4 (June 29, 2010) and references, promotes, and reemphasizes the following policy directives and memoranda: a) Presidential Policy Directive 26 – National Space Transportation Policy (November 21, 2013) b) Executive Order 13803...

Advertisement Space security issues have potentially serious consequences. The consequences of either a deliberate or even an accidental conflict in space are too horrible to contemplate. A day without the utility provided by outer space is difficult to even conceive and yet the actions of states might lead the world in that direction sooner than later. Unless states take measures to restrain some kinds of activities in space, access to space will not be safe, secure, or guaranteed.  Because o...