UN recommends new treaty to ensure peace & security in outer space

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• Currently, there is no agreed international framework on space resource exploration, exploitation & utilisation

• ensuring peace and security as well as preventing an arms race in outer space.

• a UN policy brief, For All Humanity —The Future of Outer SpaceGovernance, released in May 2024.

• international norms, rules and principles to address threats to space systems

• a combination of binding and non-binding norms” to address emerging risks to outer space security, safety and sustainability

• member states will agree on multilateral solutions for a better tomorrow and to strengthen global governanc

• from 1957-2012. In 2013, there were 210 new launches, which increased to 600 in 2019 and 1,200 in 2020 and 2,470 in 202

• e private sector

• e United States, China, India and Japan are catching up, the brief noted.

• Artemis mission, plans to land the first woman

• Minerals on the Moon, asteroids and planets can be attractive for countries. Moon, for example, has rich deposits of helium-3, which is rare on Earth

• asteroids contain abundant deposits of valuable metals, including platinum, nickel and cobalt.

• A lack of coordination among the entities could impact countries with less space capacity. T

• Objects as small as a chip of paint, travelling at more than 28,000 kilometres per hour, can cause significant damage to spacecraft,” the brief read.

• consider, including jurisdiction, control, liability and responsibility for environmental pollution in space for present and future generations.

• to prevent an armed conflict in outer space and the weaponisation of outer space.

• ing it. This would significantly increase the potential for space debris and the compromising of critical civilian infrastructure, disrupting communications, observation and navigation capabilities vital to the global supply chain. I

• the UN recommended an effective framework for coordinating space situational awareness, space object manoeuvres and space objects and events.

• In 1959, the United Nations established the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Spac

• 1963, countries agreed to prohibit testing nuclear weapons in outer space; in 1977