Space Security

The growing web of communications links and data flows that connect satellites in outer space with Earth is essential to our daily lives. We rely on that web for everything: banking, transportation, communications, weather forecasting, agriculture, mining, electricity grids, the Internet, and military and national security.

‍But future use of these capabilities is far from guaranteed. Outer space is a fragile environment threatened by military capabilities and technological mishap, but still largely unregulated.

Project Ploughshares works independently, with governments, and with other civil society organizations, to raise awareness of the challenges facing outer space security; to encourage the adoption of policies that enhance safety and sustainability, while preventing weapons and warfighting in space; and to build support for multilateral instruments as the basis for the fair and effective governance of outer space activities.

Latest Publications on Space Security