Abstract
Outer space security is generally construed as a security challenge of the future. However, in reality, it poses itself as a clear and present danger already. Space security and sustainability of outer space have thus begun to assume a new currency in the international discourse on global security, at least within a smaller community. Yet there are no effective outer space regimes in place. There is an effort within this backdrop to write new rules of the road for outer space activities. This has been driven primarily by the fact that the number and types of players in this domain are changing dramatically and that outer space has become crowded, congested and contested.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
U.S. Congress, office of Technology Assessment, Anti-Satellite Weapons, Counter-measures, and Arms Control. OTA-1S (Washington, Government Printing office, September 1985), http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk2/1985/8502/8502.PDF.
- 2.
“Radio Frequency Spectrum, Interference and Satellites Fact Sheet,” Secure World Foundation, Updated June 25, 2013, http://swfound.org/media/108538/swf_rfi_fact_sheet_2013.pdf.
- 3.
Ronnie Nader, “It Happened to Us,” in Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan and Daniel A Porras, Awaiting the Launch: Perspectives on the Draft Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities (Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2010), http://orfonline.org/cms/export/orfonline/modules/report/attachments/AwaitingLaunch_1397728623369.pdf.
- 4.
For the initial responses to the ICoC, see Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, “Debate on Space Code of Conduct: An Indian Perspective,” ORF Occasional Paper #26, Observer Research Foundation, October 2011, http://www.observerindia.com/cms/export/orfonline/modules/occasionalpaper/attachments/ocp26_1319777951241.pdf.
- 5.
For a review on the 2014 draft of the PPWT, see Michael Listner and Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, “The 2014 PPWT: A New Draft But with the Same and Different Problems,” The Space Review, August 11, 2014, http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2575/1.
- 6.
Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan and Daniel A Porras, “EU Courts Support for Space Code of Conduct,” Commentary, Space News, July 14, 2014, http://spacenews.com/41254eu-courts-support-for-space-code-of-conduct/#sthash.8rySTUVi.dpuf.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 Springer-Verlag Wien
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Rajagopalan, R.P. (2016). The International Code of Conduct and Space Sustainability. In: Al-Ekabi, C., Baranes, B., Hulsroj, P., Lahcen, A. (eds) Yearbook on Space Policy 2014. Yearbook on Space Policy. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1899-3_9
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1899-3_9
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Vienna
Print ISBN: 978-3-7091-1898-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-7091-1899-3
eBook Packages: Social SciencesSocial Sciences (R0)