The U.S. State Department, through its Office of Space Affairs, plays a crucial role in shaping international space policy and promoting American leadership in space exploration, commercialization, and utilization. It leads diplomatic efforts to foster a rules-based international framework for space activities, including the Artemis Accords, and works to strengthen collaborations with other spacefaring nations and international organizations. The Department also focuses on using space-based capabilities to address global challenges and advance U.S. foreign policy objectives. Key partners include NASA, NOAA, USGS, and the National Space Council; associated keywords are space diplomacy, international cooperation, space policy, and commercial space.
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The Alaska Satellite Facility downlinks Sentinel-1 data under an agreement between the U.S. State Department and the European Commission.
NASA and the U.S. Department of State established the Artemis Accords in 2020.
The Odom report reviewed a 1950 allegation that Webb, as deputy under secretary of state, approved firings of LGBTQ+ State Department employees during the Lavender Scare and found the historical record showed Webb was primarily concerned with limiting access to State Department personnel records from congressional investigations.
Eric Desautels was acting deputy assistant secretary for arms control, verification and compliance at the State Department during an 2022-08-24 panel discussion organized by George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute and The Aerospace Corporation.
Saudi Arabia signed the Artemis Accords in a virtual ceremony on 2022-07-14 that featured officials from NASA, the U.S. State Department, the Saudi Space Commission, and the countries' embassies.
The U.S. State Department formally blamed Russia for a late February cyberattack on Viasat's KA-SAT satellite internet network.
Valda Vikmanis-Keller is the director of the Office of Space Affairs at the U.S. State Department and gave a presentation at the FAA’s Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee meeting on 2022-05-03.
The State Space Agency of Ukraine and the U.S. State Department established a working group to identify issues that could be implemented by contractual relations with new partners to help Ukraine compensate for the loss of Russian markets.
NASA and the U.S. Department of State formally announced Bahrain’s signing of the Artemis Accords on 2022-03-07.
SpaceX provides information to the U.S. State Department to support notifications intended for China about potential close approaches.
Vice President Kamala Harris directed NASA and the U.S. Department of State to expand participation in the Artemis Accords.
Allegations exist that James Webb, while at NASA and earlier at the State Department, supported discrimination against LGBTQ people, including a 1963 case involving the arrest, interrogation, and firing of a NASA employee for being homosexual.
Peraton’s Global Defense & Security sector incorporates several new programs from the acquisition that expand the company’s support to the Department of State and Department of Homeland Security.
The U.S. State Department characterized Russia’s 2020-12-15 action as the latest in a disturbing pattern of ongoing irresponsible space activities and linked anti-satellite missile testing and provocative on-orbit behavior to an urgent need to develop and implement norms of responsible behavior in outer space.
The U.S. Department of State will continue to work with responsible spacefaring nations to develop norms of responsible behavior in outer space and to confront threats to U.S., allied, and partner interests in outer space.
The White House issued an 2020-04-06 executive order directing the State Department to lead interagency efforts to encourage other countries to adopt the American position that public and private organizations have the right to use space resources.
An 2020-04-06 executive order directed the U.S. State Department to seek international support for the U.S. view that companies or governments that extract space resources hold the rights to those resources.
The U.S.-China Civil Space Dialogue is being planned in the March 2020 timeframe and is co-chaired for the U.S. by the State Department.
The State Department was planning to host the U.S.-China Civil Space Dialogue during the first half of 2020.
Vincent Boles is co-chair of the local organizing committee for the 2019 IAC and his committee started working with the U.S. State Department 18 months before the conference to ensure visas would be ready for attendees.