The World Assembly,
Heralding the efforts of "To Prevent Dangerous Debris" to prevent the creation of space debris,
Emphasising, however, that this remains silent on the active removal of space debris,
Identifying the harm that space debris can cause to both member nations and the environment alike _
- Making space travel and exploration more difficult due to the risk of spacecraft colliding with space debris;
- Greenhouse gases being created through atmospheric combustion of space debris;
- The falling of space debris into the ground, which can cause property damage and harm sapient life;
- Collisions between existing space debris generating further space debris;
Concerned by the ominous silence of World Assembly law in the topic of removal of space debris with the repeal of "Active Reduction of Space Debris", despite this topic necessitating a plan of action to protect member nations and their environments from space debris in collaboration between member nations and the World Assembly's institutions,
Enacts as follows _
- Space debris, in this resolution, means disused sapient-made items or parts thereof in outer space posing a cognisable risk of: entering, in the foreseeable future, volumes of atmosphere controlled by a member nation, or polluting these atmospheres through atmospheric burn-up; colliding with operating member nation spacecraft; or generating further space debris;
- The Debris In Space Committee (or DISC) of the WA Scientific Programme is to index -- in a manner accessible to member nations -- and work to develop technologies and strategies that remove space debris in such a manner minimising damage caused by use to the environment, property, and sapient populations but otherwise as efficiently and speedily as possible;
- All member nations that, in the view of the DISC, have sufficiently developed technology to do so with or without Section 3a or 3b assistance, are to regularly deploy Section 2 techniques in a manner determined by the DISC to minimise damage caused by use to the environment, property, and sapient populations but otherwise function as efficiently and speedily as possible;
- The WA General Fund is to subsidise deployment of Section 2 techniques by a member nation, on request by that member nation, sufficiently to avoid severe burden on that member nation's finances posed by deployment of these techniques, where the need for funding did not arise due to deliberate diversion of existing funds by that nation;
- The DISC is to assist member nations in deploying Section 2 techniques, where such assistance is necessary for that member nation to be able to deploy space debris removal techniques so as to comply with Section 2;
- The DISC is to provide pecuniary incentives through the WA General Fund to any entities that discover and provide to the DISC data, process, or research -- barring that classified for national security or personal privacy -- that would materially assist the DISC in developing, indexing, or coordinating Section 3 deployment of, Section 2 techniques; these incentives are to be proportionate to the utility of this information to the DISC, but sufficient to reasonably procure provision of such information in the view of the DISC;
- Each member nation is to refrain from obstructing any Section 3 removal efforts, and is to penalise any legal entity under its jurisdiction that does so, so as to reasonably deter similar attempts to obstruct these space debris removal efforts;
- Subject to Section 5, no part of this resolution is to be interpreted as regulating or restricting any space debris removal efforts conducted separately to Section 3 efforts.
"Discuss."
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