In this episode, Senior Fellow in Defense Studies Peter Garretson interviews Victoria Samson, Washington Office Director for Secure World Foundation. They discuss 'space sustainability,' The Consortium for Execution of Rendezvous and Servicing Operations (CONFERS), the problem of space debris, the construction of international norms through unilateral precedent, bilateral and multilateral fora, the Artemis Accords, arms control theory, the status global counter-space and anti-satellite weapons, classification issues, space traffic management, Space Force roles and missions, and a positive agenda for international cooperation and space norms.
Victoria Samson:
https://swfound.org/about-us/our-team/victoria-samson/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-samson-6338aa13/
SWF:
https://swfound.org/about-us/who-we-are/
CONFERS:
https://www.satelliteconfers.org/
https://www.satelliteconfers.org/publications/
Artemis Accords:
https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis-accords/index.html
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-international-partners-advance-cooperation-with-first-signings-of-artemis-accords
SWF counterspace threat report:
www.swfound.org/counterspace
CSIS counterspace threat report:
https://www.csis.org/analysis/space-threat-assessment-2021
Aerospace report on norms:
https://aerospace.org/sites/default/files/2021-07/Dickey_BuildingNormentum_20210706.pdf
Ploughshares report on norms:
https://ploughshares.ca/pl_publications/report-from-safety-to-security-extending-outer-space-norms/
RAND publication on responsible behavior in space:
https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA887-2.html
SWF Biden administration briefing book:
https://swfound.org/media/207084/swf_space_policy_issue_briefing_2020_web.pdf
SWF's Handbook for new actors in space:
www.swfound.org/handbook
International Code of Conduct (ICOC):
https://eeas.europa.eu/archives/docs/non-proliferation-and-disarmament/pdf/space_code_conduct_draft_vers_31-march-2014_en.pdf
PPWT:
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjb_663304/zzjg_663340/jks_665232/kjfywj_665252/t1165762.shtml
No first placement of weapons in space:
https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3846402?ln=en
Article: US should take the lead in space arms control discussions:
https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2020-12/features/enhancing-space-security-time-legally-binding-measures
Responses to UN's query on responsible behavior [UNGA 75/36] (SWF response at bottom):
https://www.un.org/disarmament/topics/outerspace-sg-report-outer-space-2021/
UN Secretary-General report summarizing the submissions in response to UNGA 75/36:
https://front.un-arm.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/sg-report-on-reducing-space-threats-advanced-unedited-version.pdf
SWF fact sheet on LTS:
https://swfound.org/media/206891/swf_un_copuos_lts_guidelines_fact_sheet_november-2019-1.pdf
Long-Term Sustainability (LTS) guidelines, (Victoria notes: A/74/20, para 163 and Annex II:
https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/topics/long-term-sustainability-of-outer-space-activities.html
UN Arms Control, Outer Space, and Norms:
https://www.un.org/disarmament/topics/outerspace/
Ploughshares' website in general has a lot of good stuff on space norms:
https://ploughshares.ca/tag/space-norms/
