{"id":33846,"date":"2018-10-30T14:41:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33846"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:41:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T09:11:46","slug":"india-calls-for-stronger-treaties-to-protect-space-assetsth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-calls-for-stronger-treaties-to-protect-space-assetsth\/","title":{"rendered":"India calls for stronger treaties to protect space assets(TH)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-calls-for-stronger-treaties-to-protect-space-assets\/article20628568.ece\">India calls for stronger treaties to protect space assets<\/a>(TH)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stressing international cooperation in space as in all domains of global commons, Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar called for strengthening global treaties to protect space-based assets and prevent militarisation of outer space<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are global commons?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Global Commons\u2019 refers to resource domains or areas that lie outside of the political reach of any one nation State. Thus international law identifies four global commons namely:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The High Seas<\/li>\n<li>The Atmosphere<\/li>\n<li>Antarctica<\/li>\n<li>Outer Space<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>India\u2019s successful international space collaboration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India has more than 200 international cooperation agreements with more than 40 countries and international organisations. Also, India is party to all the legally binding instruments on outer space<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chandrayaan-1: <\/strong>The maiden moon mission, Chandrayaan-I, a \u201csuccessful example of international cooperation with international payloads. It signifies the importance India lays on its \u2018neighbourhood first policy\u2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>SAARC satellite<\/strong>: In May, ISRO launched the communications satellite GSAT-9, also called SAARC satellite, meant to provide connectivity and disaster support to countries in South Asia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India calls for stronger treaties to protect space assets(TH) Context Stressing international cooperation in space as in all domains of global commons, Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar called for strengthening global treaties to protect space-based assets and prevent militarisation of outer space What are global commons? The \u2018Global Commons\u2019 refers to resource domains or areas that&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-calls-for-stronger-treaties-to-protect-space-assetsth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India calls for stronger treaties to protect space assets(TH)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704889922},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}