Key Governance Issues for Space
The space domain is largely ungoverned and undisciplined. In this analysis from the CSIS Aerospace Security Project, key areas of space governance are explored to understand international perspectives on ongoing debates in the field. This research focuses on space debris mitigation and sustainability efforts, rendezvous and proximity operations, and insurance for space launch and satellites on orbit. Common threads emerge that bind these key areas of governance to one another and lead to several recommendations on how the international community might proceed with building better norms of behavior or regulations for the space domain.
Kaitlyn Johnson is deputy director and fellow of the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Ms. Johnson manages the team's strategic planning and research agenda. Her research specializes in topics such as space security, military space systems, commercial space policy, and U.S. air dominance. Previously, Ms. Johnson has written on national security space reorganization, threats against space assets, the commercialization of space, escalation and deterrence dynamics, and defense acquisition trends. Ms. Johnson holds an M.A. from American University in U.S. foreign policy and national security studies, with a concentration in defense and space security, and a B.S. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in international affairs.
