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President Donald Trump released a new national space policy Wednesday (Dec. 9), laying out the fundamental principles of, and chief priorities for, the United States' space activities going forward.

These policy directives clarify the U.S. government’s goals in space, including how it should both support and rely on the commercial space sector, track objects in Earth’s orbit and protect ...

The United States' space policy threatens the safe and sustainable development of the final frontier, two researchers argue. The U.S. is pushing national rather than multilateral regulation of ...

But the panel also oversaw smaller policy changes, including the re-establishment of U.S. Space Command in 2018 and the release of Space Policy Directive 5, which addresses protecting assets in ...

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U.S. President Barack Obama’s National Space Policy, at least the version that’s been made public, strikes positive chords with its calls for international cooperation and, more importantly ...

Credit: Flickr/Ana Sofia Guerreirinho The Trump administration issued a new U.S. National Space Policy (NSP) document on December 9, which supersedes one that was released by the Obama ...