session 5

Title

Mitigating threatening actions in orbit: How to enhance and strengthen space security

type

oral

Description

There is growing concern about the vulnerability of space systems and services to efforts to disrupt, deny, degrade, destroy or otherwise interfere with them. This in turn has led to increased rhetoric from some countries about the need to prepare for future conflicts on Earth to extend into space and to accordingly carry out more aggressive policies, postures, and capabilities. This paper session will focus on space security issues and how wide ranging their effects can be on the sustainability of the space environment and spaceflight safety. This will discuss potential threats to space systems, services, and activities in terms of actions that are deliberately intended to be harmful but also those that can be inadvertently escalatory. It will promote strategies for reducing space threats, with the final goal of raising awareness of emerging security challenges, promoting information exchange, and exploring collaborative solutions for ensuring a safe, stable, and peaceful space environment for all.

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Ms. Victoria Samson, Secure World Foundation, United States;

• Co-Chair: Dr. Guoyu Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, Institute of Space Law, China;

• Rapporteur: Ms. Agnieszka Lukaszczyk, Andart Global, Poland;