Monday, March 31, 2008

A Code of Conduct for Outer Space

Work is progressing on a Code of Conduct for Space – so spacefaring nations can continue to benefit from the national security and economic advantages provided by satellites.

A special edition of the Secure World Foundation’s newsletter – The Secure World – spotlights the ongoing effort to shape a Code that can be adopted by like-minded states that operate on the high-seas of space.

“We look at this important work on a Code of Conduct for Space as also a first step in developing a well-defined piece of space traffic management,” said Ray Williamson, Executive Director of the Colorado-based Secure World Foundation (SWF) Complete story here

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Oh this has been a long time coming. All we have to do is look at some of the junk left over after the CSA blew up one of its own sats. NASA has some answering to do as well. The US books a serious chunk of hours in space and can account for a large portion of the trash still in orbit.