{"id":58987,"date":"2020-09-22T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-administrator-suggests-challenge-to-nations-violating-outer-space-treaty\/"},"modified":"2020-09-22T21:05:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T13:05:09","slug":"nasa-administrator-suggests-challenge-to-nations-violating-outer-space-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-administrator-suggests-challenge-to-nations-violating-outer-space-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Administrator Suggests Challenge to Nations Violating Outer Space Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Nations that damage satellites are ripe for legal challenge under the 1972 Liability Convention to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST), NASA<\/strong> Administrator Jim Bridenstine suggested on Tuesday<\/p>\n

In a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies\u2019 Aerospace Nation discussion with U.S. Air Force<\/strong> Gen. John \u201cJay\u201d Raymond, chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force<\/strong> (USSF), Bridenstine said that both NASA and USSF are \u201cvery committed to adhering to the principles of the Outer Space Treaty.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you think about the Liability Convention of the Outer Space Treaty, it\u2019s really been tested once,\u201d Bridenstine said. \u201cThere was a satellite that re-entered and hit Canada, and there were some damages paid from one country to the other, and that was decades and decades ago. Today, we\u2019re seeing satellites break apart, and things get jammed. The question is, \u2018Can we test the Liability Convention in a more robust way?\u2019 because the Outer Space Treaty is not just for fun and games. It\u2019s intended to actually modify behavior in space, and, if we\u2019re not testing the Liability Convention, then it\u2019s really not worth the paper that it\u2019s written on so I think we need to be more forward leaning on ensuring the Outer Space Treaty is adhered to.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the only claim under the Liability Convention, the Soviet Union paid Canada some $2 million after the U.S.S.R.\u2019s nuclear-powered Kosmos 954 reconnaissance satellite crashed in western Canada and scattered radioactive debris on Jan. 24, 1978.<\/p>\n

Bridenstine and Raymond, who signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday on future research cooperation between NASA and USSF, stressed the development of civil and military norms of behavior for space and a possible international code of conduct for space to build on the requirements of the OST, the Liability Convention, and the 1976 Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom my perspective, if you look at what\u2019s in the Outer Space Treaty, it\u2019s not all that limiting,\u201d Raymond said during the Aerospace Nation forum. \u201cIt says you won\u2019t put a nuclear weapon in space, and you won\u2019t use the moon and other celestial bodies for military operations. Short of that, it\u2019s the wild, Wild West. I do believe there is common interest between NASA and the Space Force to develop norms of behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Defense Intelligence Agency warned in a \u201cChallenges to Security in Space\u201d report last year that Russia and China are developing a number of counterspace systems, including directed energy and cyber weapons, on-orbit capabilities, and ground-based anti-satellite missiles.<\/p>\n

110 nations, including the U.S., China, Russia, and North Korea, are parties to the Outer Space Treaty.<\/p>\n

This article was originally published by our sister publication Defense Daily.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nations that damage satellites are ripe for legal challenge under the 1972 Liability Convention to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty (OST), NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine suggested on Tuesday In a Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies\u2019 Aerospace Nation discussion with U.S. Air Force Gen. John \u201cJay\u201d Raymond, chief of space operations for the U.S. Space Force […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}