The Secure World Foundation (SWF) is a non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting the secure, sustainable, and peaceful use of outer space for the benefit of Earth and all its peoples. It acts as a research body, convener, and facilitator, engaging with governments, industry, international organizations, and civil society. SWF focuses on space security, space sustainability, and the development of cooperative solutions through research, policy development, and international collaboration. Associated keywords include: space sustainability, space security, policy, international cooperation, and space governance.
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The Secure World Foundation developed a “Stewardship Checklist” for pre-investment evaluation and ongoing portfolio management of space companies.
The Secure World Foundation’s Global Counterspace Capabilities 2026 report says electronic warfare and cyber operations are the only methods actively used in military operations in orbit.
Victoria Samson is one of the editors of the Secure World Foundation’s 2025 Global Counterspace Capabilities report.
The 2025 Global Counterspace Capabilities report from the Secure World Foundation informed Germany’s strategic shift by documenting proliferation of non-kinetic counterspace tools such as electronic warfare and directed-energy weapons.
The 2025 Global Counterspace Capabilities report from the Secure World Foundation identifies proliferation of non-kinetic tools such as electronic warfare and directed-energy weapons that redefine space as an active warfighting domain.
The Secure World Foundation’s Global Counterspace Capabilities assessments provide a public catalogue that indicates most contemporary operational counterspace activity is non-destructive and reversible.
The SGAC, UK Space Agency, BryceTech, and HEO partnered with Secure World Foundation to support the scholarships for the 6th Summit for Space Sustainability.
LeoLabs partnered with the Secure World Foundation to bring together government and space industry leaders who aim to move from remediation discussions to remediation practice.
LeoLabs partnered with the Secure World Foundation on a joint statement and a summit in New Zealand focused on orbital debris remediation.
LeoLabs partnered with the Secure World Foundation on a joint statement and a summit in New Zealand to address orbital debris.
Secure World Foundation’s efforts include developing governance tools intended to reduce the threat posed by orbital debris.
The Secure World Foundation received the Space Stewardship Award in 2020.
The Secure World Foundation's Counter-space Capabilities Report defines military capabilities for the index.
Brian Weeden, director of program planning at the Secure World Foundation, interprets the updated DoD space policy as directing compliance with the July 2021 tenets memo.
The 2008 U.S. antisatellite demonstration that destroyed USA 193 created 174 pieces of tracked debris, and the last of those pieces reentered 1.7 years later, based on data compiled by the Secure World Foundation.
Victoria Samson, Washington office director of the Secure World Foundation, cited the U.S. test ban alongside the Department of Defense’s July 2021 tenets of responsible space behavior as contributing to limits on the creation of long-lived space debris.
Audrey Schaffer, director of space policy at the National Security Council, participated in a Center for Strategic and International Studies and Secure World Foundation panel discussion on 2022-01-26 about managing the risks of satellite close approaches in geostationary orbit.
The Secure World Foundation projects the debris field from the 2021-11-15 test will expand into a ring around the Earth and likely remain in orbit for years, threatening other space objects.
Ian Christensen, director of private sector programs at Secure World Foundation, assesses that development of the Guowang constellation will provide domestic employment, anchor space-related industry clusters, and contribute to economic development by serving domestic connectivity needs.
The Secure World Foundation updated a separate fact sheet summarizing commercial and civil robotic RPO activities that may be misconstrued as military capabilities.