Space Sustainability

Space sustainability refers to ensuring that all humanity can continue to use outer space for peaceful purposes and socioeconomic benefit now and in the long term.

Threats to Space Sustainability

  • Operations and safety are directly threatened by orbital congestion and space debris. Kessler syndrome is a series of events that can happen when orbits are physically crowded.
  • The militarization and armament of space pose a serious threat. Destructive anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon development and testing by nations including the US, Russia, China, and India.
  • Rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) entail changing a space object's trajectory to bring one or more other space objects ....
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