Space Security Index 2015

Space Security Index 2015 is the twelfth annual report on developments related to safety, sustainability, and security in outer space, covering the period January-December 2014.  It is part of the broader Space Security Index (SSI) project, which aims to improve transparency on space activities and provide a common, comprehensive, objective knowledge base to support the development of national and international policies that contribute to the security and sustainability of outer space.

          SPACE SECURITY INDEX 2015 - Executive Summary

For more information and to order copies of the Space Security Index Executive Summary, please contact SSI Project Manager, Anna Jaikaran, at Project Ploughshares.  The full report will be available for purchase in Autumn 2015 at www.spacesecurityindex.org.

The definition of space security guiding this report reflects the intent of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that outer space should remain open for all to use for peaceful purposes now and in the future:  

"The secure and sustainable access to, and use of,
space and freedom from space-based threats."

The Space Security Index is a research partnership made possible by financial and in-kind support from The Simons Foundation; Project Ploughshares; Erin J.C. Arsenault Trust Fund at McGill University, Faculty of Law; Institute of Air and Space Law at McGill University, and the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University.

The views expressed in the Space Security Index represent those of the experts engaged throughout the process and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Government of Canada or the other partner organizations of Spacesecurity.org.