Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

Key Governance Issues in Space is a new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) – a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world’s greatest challenges.

The report explores the global landscape of national space policies concerning space sustainability, rendezvous and proximity operations, and insurance requirements – elements that they say are “uneven and irregular.”

Solutions for space sustainability

“Without clear national regulations and policies, the challenge to find international consensus and define technical standards for key issues in space governance remains bleak,” the report explains.

The crowded space environment may look like this a decade from now, with proposed mega-constellations.
Credit: Center for Space Policy & Strategy

“However, there are a few areas of consensus among nations, such as the need from the global space community for nations to support solutions for space sustainability.

Orbital debris

A concern expressed in the report, by several in the space community, is that real efforts to protect the space domain will not occur until another major debris-creating event occurs.

The report, by Kaitlyn Johnson, an associate fellow and associate director of the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, is available at:

https://aerospace.csis.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Johnson_GovernanceInSpace_WEB_FINAL-1.pdf