Summary
Mission
ACES Worldwide endeavors to strengthen and promote international space cooperation and establish new alliances between diverse educational, technological, civil and entrepreneurial organizations. ACES Worldwide’s mission is to help advance and support equitable space policies, laws and regulations on a global basis by which all nations and private and public entities can engage in optimizing humanity’s potential for space exploration and utilization–both on and beyond the Earth.
ACES Worldwide’s aspiration is to help harmonize commercial space endeavors, national space agency goals, and the interests of both non-profit and humanitarian organizations seeking to engage with space exploration, utilization, and development. This alliance primarily addresses issues related to space safety, improved sustainability, space traffic management, cosmic hazards and planetary defense, space education and training, and capacity-building in space systems.
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Enhancing Spacefaring Capabilities & Policies
ACES Worldwide’s initiatives will be particularly important to support countries developing new space programs and space initiatives, as well as to enhance collaboration among those countries already engaged in spacefaring ventures.
ACES Worldwide will strengthen collaborative exchanges among nations and space-related organizations interested in the peaceful, sustainable and equitable development of space enterprise. We are seeking innovative approaches to enhance global collaboration as well as to inspire new regulatory frameworks and best practices through transparency and confidence building measures. This will help relieve gaps and deficiencies that currently exist between existing space laws and new technologies, as well as address the needs of countries with newly established space programs.
Increasing Space System Usage & Sustainability
Space systems can be used to improved capabilities in education, healthcare, food and agriculture, and to create a more sustainable environment–plus many other elements of the U.N. 17 Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. The ACES Worldwide Compact Agreements initiative is dedicated to linking new rural and remote users with available space systems to meet their needs and also meet the U.N. Goals for Sustainable Development. This is accomplished via “Compact Agreements” between new users of space systems and space system providers that is facilitated by ACES Worldwide.
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ACES Worldwide Programs
ACES Worldwide seeks to collaborate with space-related organizations, agencies and commercial entities to address key issues of mutual concern across all nations of the world.
ACES Worldwide activities are primarily directed toward:
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Improving space safety standards
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Seeking the long-term sustainability of planet Earth via the use of space systems and working in partnership with the U.N;
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Addressing the issue of orbital space debris and its mitigation;
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Seeking to improve space traffic management;
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Facilitating broader access to space training, education, research, and capacity-building;
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Improving planetary defense against cosmic hazards (including asteroids, comets, solar storms and space debris);
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Facilitating new or improved space law treaties and guiding principles that address the above issues.
Key activities include: “Roundtable Discussions” and “Action Agenda Papers.” These activities are conducted with support provided by ACES Worldwide’s Global Advisory Committee and its Alliance Partners. ACES Worldwide also seeks to work globally to improve the use of space systems to help meet the U.N. 17 sustainable development goals by developing “Compact Agreements” devoted to this objective.
