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4 Opportunities and Challenges
Pages 13-17

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... chair Charles Kennel (University of California, San Diego) , focused on international space cooperation as a tool for engagement with new and emerging space powers.1 These countries, the participants observed, may be interested in collaborating with the United States on space projects for a wide variety of reasons, including a desire to enhance their prestige, accelerate their economic and technical development, and gain greater access to knowledge, experience, and technology.
From page 14...
... Participants observed that increased space collaboration can provide broad benefits to the United States by making space a routine place for all nations to operate (thereby enhancing the security of space assets) , expanding the economic sphere into space, and demonstrating that the United States is a cooperative society desiring to work productively with all nations (which could improve the image of the United States)
From page 15...
... The space exploration cooperation group moderator agreed that continuation of the ISS beyond 2016 would represent a significant undertaking that must be considered carefully by the United States and the other ISS partners that would have to provide the funding. COOPERATING IN SUPPORT OF ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABILITY The third discussion group, led by Conrad Lautenbacher, considered the role of Earth observations in supporting international efforts in climate and sustainability.
From page 16...
... The discussion group further observed that space activities are sometimes pursued under United Nations auspices, for example through the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.7 Participants reviewed several advantages and disadvantages of each of these current approaches.
From page 17...
... Collaboration through military alliances such as NATO10 might involve cost sharing with defense organizations, could benefit from existing operational and coordination structures, and could be "ITAR friendly" for participating countries. At the same time, military alliance collaboration might be limited to the existing partners and might create public-acceptability concerns in countries where civil and national security space activities have been pursued separately.


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