The U.S. will introduce a resolution to that effect at the United Nations General Assembly this month.
The United States will soon ask other nations to follow its lead and abandon destructive, debris-spawning anti-satellite testing, Vice President Kamala Harris said.
for the U.S. five months ago, and she announced a coming and concerted international push on Friday during a meeting of the National Space Council at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.," said Harris, who chairs the NSC."And later this month, the United States will introduce a resolution at the United Nations General Assembly to call on other nations to make the same commitment."The NSC helps shape American space policy.
Assistant Secretary of State Monica Medina represented her department at Friday's meeting, which was the second chaired by Harris. Medina pledged that State would work hard to bring other nations aboard on the anti-satellite test pledge during the U.N. General Assembly, which takes place from"In the coming weeks, Assistant Secretary Stewart and her team will have extensive consultations at the U.N.
Direct-ascent anti-satellite tests, which use missiles to destroy dead or dying satellites, can generate large clouds of
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