The February 2009 collision of Russian Cosmos satellite and an A...
The February 2009 collision of Russian Cosmos satellite and an American Iridium satellite and other close calls have prompted renewed calls for an international law on disposing of defunct satellites, said the U.N. information service in Vienna. The five…
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current space-law treaties were negotiated before space debris was an issue, said Niklas Hedman, the chief of the Committee Services and Research Section at the U.N. Office for Outer Space Affairs. The calls for an international law aren’t coming from the major space-faring nations, Hedman said, as much as from developing countries and emerging space-faring powers. Space-faring nations have strategies for dealing with the problem, he said.