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

人类在外层空间的活动在过去五年中发展得比历史上任何时候都要快，私营部门目前占空间部门资金的75%。与此同时，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，必须对这一重要主题进行研究，包括越来越多的私营部门参与的影响及其与空间治理和安全的关系，以期为空间和其他“全球公域”提供进一步的见解。虽然在文献中仍有对国家的重要关注，但很少有思想家考虑过私营部门，也没有人对它们对太空安全和治理的直接影响做出过解释。在撰写我关于外层空间治理的硕士论文时，这是一个通过研究变得明显的关键关注和兴趣领域，然而，由于硕士论文的规模有限，这无法进一步探索。因此，我试图将其作为博士项目来进行，在这个项目中，我将回答这个主题的关键问题——即私营部门在空间中的作用、空间安全治理的意义以及这两个因素之间关系的建立。在此过程中，我试图利用相关案例研究，包括其他“全球公地”，对空间部门关键人物的访谈，以及贯穿始终的文本分析，以确保正确评估这些问题所需的研究深度，并解决私营部门在空间治理中的作用文献中的这一关键缺失。

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.