美国外空安全新政策及其国际影响

2012年11月, 美国国防部出台新版《空间政策指令》, 就全面落实美国2010年《国家空间政策》、2011年《国家安全空间战略》进行了具体部署, 反映了美国对全球战略安全环境、空间环境的总体判断, 特别是反映了美国军事航天战略以及美国军方如何有效解决21世纪及未来的空间环境安全、空间防务安全、空间稳定及空间可持续发展等问题的新思路。通过对新版《空间政策指令》进行背景分析和内容解读, 提出了政策应对建议, 研判新形势下奥巴马总统第二任期内空间政策走向。

New US Space Security Policy and Its International Implications

In November 2012, the US Department of Defense released a new Space Policy Directive as a follow-up initiative to the release in 2010 of President Barack Obama’s National Space Policy and in 2011 of the National Security Space Strategy. The new DOD Directive showcases the latest perceptions of global strategic security environment in general and the outer space domain in particular on the part of the US military as well as the US government, highlighting new US defense space strategy and the new US thinking on how to effectively tackle the challenges of space safety, space security, space stability and space sustainability in the 21st century and beyond. Through background analysis and contents interpretations on the new Pentagon document followed by some policy proposals, this article provides some observations to forecast the US space policy trend during President Barack Obama’s second term in White House.