What are the most pressing challenges confronting governments, industry and civil society in terms of building capacity for implementing international space sustainability guidelines, and what steps should each of these three sectors prioritize to build such capacity? This panel of leading international experts shared their thoughts on how governments, industry and civil society can jointly build capacity in the space community to support the implementation of the international guidelines for space sustainability recently adopted by the UN. For more background information on these guidelines, see our SWF Factsheet.
Panelists
Government
Niklas Hedman, UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, Austria Andre Rypl, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil Keren Shahar, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel David Turner, Department of State, United States Industry Aarti Holla-Maini, EMEA Satellite Operators Association, Belgium Therese Jones, Satellite Industry Association, United States Daniel Oltrogge, Space Safety Coalition, United States Charity Weeden, Astroscale, United States Civil Society David Kendall, Outer Space Institute, Canada Jean-Jacques Tortora, European Space Policy Institute, Austria Guoyu Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Danielle Wood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States