Russia wants international cooperation on space threats

RIA Novosti reports that a senior Russian security official wants more robust multilateralism on space threats: “The Russian Security Council has repeatedly proposed to develop an interstate target program to counter space threats, such as asteroids, comets and space junk,” [Nikolai] Patrushev said in an interview with the Rossiyskaya Gazeta government daily, to be published ...

By , a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.

RIA Novosti reports that a senior Russian security official wants more robust multilateralism on space threats:

RIA Novosti reports that a senior Russian security official wants more robust multilateralism on space threats:

“The Russian Security Council has repeatedly proposed to develop an interstate target program to counter space threats, such as asteroids, comets and space junk,” [Nikolai] Patrushev said in an interview with the Rossiyskaya Gazeta government daily, to be published in Wednesday’s edition.

“Preventing such threats requires the inter-governmental cooperation of states that have the ability to monitor and analyze the situation in near-Earth space,” the official said.

David Bosco is a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He is the author of The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans. Twitter: @multilateralist

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