NATIONAL SPACE POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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strengthen the safety, stability, security, and long-term sustainability of space
activities, to increase predictability and reduce the risk of misunderstanding and
inadvertent conflict escalation; and
- Cooperate with likeminded international partners to establish standards of safe
and responsible behavior, including openness, transparency, and predictability,
to facilitate the detection, identification, and attribution of actions in space that
are inconsistent with the safety, stability, security, and long-term sustainability of
space activities.
The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, in coordination with the
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the
Secretary of Commerce, and the heads of other agencies as appropriate, shall lead the
development of national and international planetary protection guidelines, working
with scientific, commercial, and international partners, for the appropriate protection
of planetary bodies and Earth from harmful biological contamination.
Preserving the Space Environment to Enhance the Long-term Sustainability of Space
Activities
Preserve the Space Environment. To preserve the space environment for responsible,
peaceful, and safe use, and with a focus on minimizing space debris the United States shall:
Continue leading the development and adoption of international and industry
standards and policies, such as the Guidelines for the Long-term Sustainability of Outer
Space Activities and the Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines of the United Nations
Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space;
Continue to make available basic space situational awareness (SSA) data, and provide
for basic space traffic coordination (including conjunction and reentry notifications),
free of direct user fees while supporting new opportunities for United States
commercial and non-profit products and services;
Develop, maintain, and use SSA information from commercial, civil, and national
security sources in an open architecture data repository to detect, identify, and
attribute actions in space that are inconsistent with the safety, stability, security, and
the long-term sustainability of space activities;
Develop and maintain space flight safety standards and best practices to coordinate
space traffic;
Ensure that, consistent with international obligations, timely and accurate information
concerning United States space objects launched into Earth orbit or beyond is entered