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Handbook of Space Security

Policies, Applications and Programs

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  • Covers the recent space and security developments, along with new challenges
  • Analyzes the ways in which international policymakers are attempting to maintain safe and secure access to operations in space, given the fundamental role that space systems play in the daily lives of much of the world's populations
  • Provides expansive international perspectives on the topic of Space Security
  • Analyzes how best to advance space security and safeguard space for peaceful endeavours

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Table of contents (77 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
  2. International Space Security Setting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Definition and Status of Space Security

      • Ntorina Antoni
      Pages 9-33
    3. Challenges to International Space Governance

      • Ahmad Khan, Sufian Ullah
      Pages 35-48
    4. The Laws of War in Outer Space

      • Steven Freeland, Elise Gruttner
      Pages 73-93
    5. Arms Control and Space Security

      • Stacey Henderson
      Pages 95-110
    6. Role of Space in Deterrence

      • John J. Klein, Nickolas J. Boensch
      Pages 111-126
    7. Space Security Cooperation: Changing Dynamics

      • Jessica L. West
      Pages 145-162
    8. Strategic Competition for Space Partnerships and Markets

      • Jana Robinson, Tereza B. Kupková, Patrik Martínek
      Pages 163-183
    9. Space Export Control Law and Regulations

      • Ulrike M. Bohlmann, Gina Petrovici
      Pages 185-210
    10. Space Systems and Space Sovereignty as a Security Issue

      • Annamaria Nassisi, Isabella Patatti
      Pages 211-226
    11. Critical Space Infrastructures

      • Alexandru Georgescu
      Pages 227-244
    12. Space and Cyber Threats

      • Stefano Zatti
      Pages 245-263
    13. Space Safety

      • Joe Pelton, Tommaso Sgobba, Maite Trujillo
      Pages 265-298
    14. Space Sustainability

      • Peter Martinez
      Pages 319-340
    15. Security Issues with Respect to Celestial Bodies

      • George D. Kyriakopoulos
      Pages 341-356

About this book

Space Security involves the use of space (in particular communication, navigation, earth observation, and electronic intelligence satellites) for military and security purposes on earth and also the maintenance of space (in particular the earth orbits) as safe and secure areas for conducting peaceful activities. The two aspects can be summarized as "space for security on earth" and “the safeguarding of space for peaceful endeavors.” 

The second, updated edition of this handbook provides a sophisticated, cutting-edge resource on the space security portfolio and the associated technology, applications and programs to help fellow members of the global space community and other interested policy-making and academic audiences keep abreast of the current and future directions of this vital dimension of international space policy. Various dimensions of space security as well as space for security on Earth are described, covering space policy and the geopolitics of space, existing and planned applications and programs, as well as technological solutions. 


This second edition covers the recent space and security developments that have taken place in Europe and worldwide over the last years, along with new challenges that must be addressed. At its conclusion, the book provides foreward-looking recommendations, especially in the area of space governance and transparency and confidence-building measures.

Editors and Affiliations

  • European Space Agency (ESA), Paris, France

    Kai-Uwe Schrogl

About the editor

Prof. Dr Kai-Uwe Schrogl is currently seconded from the European Space Agency (ESA) to the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in Berlin to support the preparation of the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2020. Until 2019, Dr. Schrogl was the Chief Strategy Officer of ESA (Headquartered in Paris, France). From 2007 to 2011 he was the Director of the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna, Austria, the leading European think tank for space policy. Prior to this, he was the Head of the Corporate Development and External Relations Department in the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne, Germany. Previously, he also worked with the German Ministry for Post and Telecommunications and the German Space Agency (DARA) in Bonn, Germany. Dr. Schrogl has been a delegate to numerous international forums and has served from 2014 to 2016 as Chairman of the Legal Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, the highest body for space law making, comprising 73 Member States. He also was chairman of various European and global committees (ESA International Relations Committee and two plenary working groups of the UNCOPUOS Legal Subcommittee, the one on the launching State and the other on the registration practice, both leading to UN General Assembly Resolutions).

He presented, respectively testified, at hearings of the European Parliament and the U.S. House of Representatives. Dr. Schrogl is President of the International Institute of Space Law, the professional association of space law experts from 48 countries, Member of the International Academy of Astronautics (recently chairing its Commission on policy, economics, and regulations) and the Russian Academy of Cosmonautics, as well as Corresponding Member of the French Air and Space Academy. He holds a doctorate degree in political science and lectures international relations as an Honorary Professor at Tübingen University, Germany. Dr. Schrogl has written or co-edited 17 books and more than 140 articles, reports, and papers in the fields of space policy and law as well as telecommunications policy. He launched and edited until 2011 the Yearbook on Space Policy and the book series Studies in Space Policy, both published by ESPI at SpringerWienNewYork. He sits on editorial boards of various international journals in the field of space policy and law (Space Policy, Zeitschrift für Luft- und Weltraumrecht, Studies in Space Law/Nijhoff; previously also Acta Astronautica).

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