Dangers in Outer Space: Security Governance and the Role of the Private Space Industry

外层空间的危险：安全治理和私营航天工业的作用

• 批准号: 2700675
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2700675
• 关键词: Dangers; Outer; Space; Security; Governance

Human activity in outer space has developed more rapidly within the previous five years than at anyother point in history with the private sector now accounting for 75% of space sector funding.Simultaneously, humanity's ever-growing orbital presence has generated increased concern,particularly regarding the potential destruction of space-based confrontations. Accordingly, researchinto this essential topic must be undertaken, including the effects of ever-greater private sectorinvolvement and its relationship to space governance and security with the hope of providingfurther insights into space and other 'global commons'. Whilst there remains significant focus onstates within the literature, few thinkers have considered the private sector, and none have offeredan account of their direct impact on security and governance in space. In producing my master'sdissertation on outer space governance, this was an area of key concern and interest that becameapparent through research, however, due to the limited scale of a master's dissertation, this couldnot be explored further. Therefore, I seek to undertake this as a PhD project within which I answerthe topic's key questions - namely the questions of the private sector's role in space, the meaning ofsecurity governance in space and the establishment of the relationship between these two factors.In doing this I seek to utilise relevant case studies including other 'global commons', interviews withkey individuals within the space sector, and textual analysis throughout to ensure the depth ofresearch required to properly assess these questions and address this key absence in the literatureof the private sector's role in space governance.

在过去五年中，人类在外层空间的活动比历史上任何时候都发展得更快，私营部门现在占空间部门资金的75%，同时，人类不断增长的轨道存在引起了越来越多的关注，特别是关于天基对抗的潜在破坏。因此，必须对这一重要专题进行研究，包括私营部门越来越多地参与的影响及其与空间治理和安全的关系，以期进一步深入了解空间和其他“全球共同点”。虽然在文献中仍然有大量关注国家，但很少有思想家考虑过私营部门，也没有人提供他们对空间安全和治理的直接影响。在撰写我关于外层空间治理的硕士论文时，这是一个通过研究而变得明显的关键关切和兴趣领域，然而，由于硕士论文规模有限，无法进一步探讨这一问题。因此，我试图将其作为一个博士项目来进行，在这个项目中，我回答了这个主题的关键问题-即私营部门在太空中的作用，太空安全治理的意义以及这两个因素之间关系的建立。在这样做的过程中，我试图利用相关的案例研究，包括其他“全球共同点”，对太空部门关键人物的采访，和文本分析，以确保深入的研究，需要适当评估这些问题，并解决这一关键缺乏文献中的私营部门的作用，在空间治理。