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

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%。与此同时，人类日益增长的轨道存在引起了越来越多的关注，特别是对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，以期对空间和其他“全球公地”有更深入的了解。虽然文献中对国家的关注仍然很大，但很少有思想家考虑过私营部门，也没有人提出它们对空间安全和治理的直接影响。在撰写我的关于外层空间治理的硕士论文时，这是一个通过研究显而易见的关键关切和兴趣领域，但由于硕士论文的规模有限，无法进一步探讨这一问题。因此，我试图将此作为一个博士项目来承担，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等问题。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”，对空间部门中的关键人物进行访谈，并从头到尾进行文本分析，以确保适当评估这些问题和解决私营部门在空间治理中作用的文献中的关键缺失所需的研究深度。

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.