Elgar Encyclopedia of Space Policy and Governance

Edited by Sa’id Mosteshar, Professor and Director and Christoph Beischl, Dr and Deputy Director, London Institute of Space Policy and Law (ISPL), UK and Arne Sönnichsen, Dr and Scientific Consultant, Institut für qualifizierende Innovationsforschung und -beratung GmbH (IQIB), Germany

‘Space governance is essentially international and multidisciplinary in character, and this Encyclopedia, written by the best experts in the field, is a must-read primer for those who wish to gain proper understanding of this highly complex and important global governance system.’

• ContentsPreface ix1 Anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon 1Gerry Doyle2 Arms race in outer space 5Xavier Pasco3 Artemis Accords 9Steve Mirmina4 Asia-Pacific Regional SpaceAgency Forum (APRSAF) 14Hajime Shinomiya5 Asia-Pacific Space CooperationOrganization (APSCO) 18Zhenjun Zhang6 Astropolitics 21Tomas Hrozensky7 Civil space 24Jean-Jacques Tortora,with contributions by Sa’idMosteshar and ChristophBeischl and London Instituteof Space Policy and Law (ISPL)8 Code of conduct 27Steven Freeland9 Competitive space 31Henry R. Hertzfeld10 Contested space 34Dimitrios Stroikos11 Cooperation and collaboration 38Saadia M. Pekkanen12 Counterspace 42Gerry Doyle13 Critical infrastructure: space 46Clémence Poirier andSebastien Moranta14 Cybersecurity 51Percy J. Blount15 Delimitation and definition ofouter space 55Ranjana Kaul16 Democratisation of space 59Arne Sönnichsen17 Dual use 62Elina Morozova18 European Space Agency (ESA) 67Ulrike Bohlmann, LukasJung, Simona Richard andKai-Uwe Schrogl19 Global commons 72Oonagh Sands20 Governance of space 77Tanja Masson-Zwaan21 In-situ resource utilisation(ISRU) 81Guoyu Wang22 International Lunar ResearchStation (ILRS) 85Xiaodan Wu23 International norms 89Robin Dickey24 InternationalTelecommunication Union(ITU) 93Sa’id Mosteshar25 Militarisation 96Tara Brown26 NewSpace 100Jules Varma27 Outer space treaty 104Christian Brünner and Hannes Mayer28 Peaceful use of outer space 107Paul Baki, with contributionsby Sa’id Mosteshar andChristoph Beischl andLondon Institute of SpacePolicy and Law (ISPL)29 Planetary defence 110Christoph Beischl and Sa’id Mosteshar30 Planetary protection 113Thomas Cheney31 Privatisation 117Graham Turnock32 Regionalisation 121Christoph Beischl33 Responsible behaviour in outerspace 124Setsuko Aoki34 Search for ExtraterrestrialIntelligence (SETI) 128Jason T. Wright35 Soft law 131Irmgard Marboe36 Space agency roles 135Arne Sönnichsen37 Space commercialisation 138Jean-Jacques Tortora,with contributions by Sa’idMosteshar and ChristophBeischl and London Instituteof Space Policy and Law (ISPL)38 Space debris 143Martha Mejía-Kaiser39 Space diplomacy 147Ken Hodgkins40 Space economy 151Henry R. Hertzfeld41 Space law 154Fabio Tronchetti42 Space policy 158Ntorina Antoni, ChristinaGiannopapa and Kai-Uwe Schrogl43 Space race 163John M. Logsdon44 Space safety 167Joseph N. Pelton, Michael T.Kezirian, Taro Kuusiholmaand Paul Wilde45 Space science 171David Southwood46 Space security 175Arne Sönnichsen47 Space sustainability 177Lauren Napier48 Space Technology Transfer(STT) 181Arne Sönnichsen49 Space traffic management(STM) 184Stuart Eves50 Space warfare 187Jeremy Grunert51 Space weaponisation 192Jeremy Grunert52 Spacepower 196Marco Aliberti, OttorinoCappelli and Rodrigo Praino53 Transparency and confidencebuilding 200Peter Martinez54 UNOOSA and UNCOPUOS 204Yangzi Tao