Governments have increasingly viewed satellites in Earth’s orbit as crucial assets that enable an array of military capabilities on Earth, with space-based communications and satellite-connected drones in the war in Ukraine serving as recent examples of space’s outsized role in modern warfare.
Egypt has been unanimously elected to lead a United Nations expert team tasked with drafting a treaty preventing an arms race in outer space, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 21 November. The team, formed by the UN secretary-general, will work in alignment with the General Assembly’s resolution on the matter.
Washington and its allies are attempting to scuttle the existing international agreements designed to prevent an arms race in space in order to impose their own rules