Written question asked by Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Labour) on Wednesday, 21 April 2021, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 6 May 2021. It was answered by Lord Callanan (Conservative) on Wednesday, 28 April 2021 on behalf of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
OneWeb and SpaceX: Satellites
- Question
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To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their latest assessment of the risks to low-earth-orbit spacecraft, following the reported near miss between a OneWeb Satellite and a SpaceX satellite in April.
- Answer
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The UK is committed to ensure increasing level of commercial activity in space is carried out sustainably. We are working with industry to develop regulatory frameworks that promote safety and helping to facilitate international consensus on responsible behaviours in space.
Alongside our partners from the space sector, the Government are working with the UN and the European Space Agency to improve sustainability guidelines and to develop new ways of reducing the risk of collisions in space and removing space debris and have raised space sustainability as an issue for discussion at this year’s G7 meeting.
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- Written question
- Reference
- HL15161
- Session
- 2019-21
- Subjects
- Satellites OneWeb SpaceX
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- 2021-04-29 21:11:16 +0100
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