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There are genuine concerns that if steps are not taken to halt the current trend toward space weaponization, space could become an active warfighting domain.
Growing space security threats are proving to be a challenge for existing global governance measures, but consensus on new rules is proving difficult.
BRICS countries welcome extension of New START The top diplomats also "confirmed the commitment to ensure prevention of an arms race in outer space and its weaponization" NEW DELHI, June 1. /TASS/. The BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) welcome the extension of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) by Moscow and Washington, the five countries’ foreign ministers said in a joint statement on Tuesday. "The Ministers welcomed, in this regard, the extension of the 2010 Russia-US Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensiv...
The U.S. and Russia are Parting Ways in Space and That's Risky America’s “unipolar moment” has lingered on in the international distribution of space capabilities, but it will not last forever. American space partisans could be forgiven for yawning at the recent announcement that the Russian and Chinese space agencies will build a joint lunar research base. The statement included no timeline, and everyone knows that paper plans for space projects are a dime a dozen. While the Russians and Chinese talk, NASA is busy testing rockets and selecting astronauts for its Artemis Program, which...
Nobody Wants Rules in Space As space becomes more crowded, there’s little hope for new international rules to make it safer. Debris from a crashing Chinese rocket hurtling toward Earth and a Russian projectile-shooting spy satellite are the two examples of a big problem: too few rules governing how nations behave in space. Wednesday on Capitol Hill, lawmakers pressed Biden administration officials on what the United States can do to set some hard boundaries. The answer: The United States wants norms in space, but don’t expect anything legally binding anytime soon. There are s...