Global Security: Ukrainian HOPSIS Program and Space Mission to Destroy Asteroids

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by Volodymyr Prysiazhnyy1, Alexander Levenko2 and Oleg Pauk3
1 National Center Space Facilities Control and Test Center, SSAU (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2 Institute of Space Industrialization (Dnipro, Ukraine)
3 State Enterprise “Production Association Yuzhny Machine-Building plant named after A.M. Makarov,” YUZHMASH (Dnipro, Ukraine)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/asl/11/6
Received: 1 April 2023 / Accepted: 22 April 2023 / Published: 25 June 2023

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Abstract

The article highlights the actual problems of ensuring the Global Security of the World and Ukraine. The results of studying the experience of the Geneva Center for Security Policy and the legal provision of security are presented. The article presents the results of the Ukrainian experience of participating in the mission of the Geneva Center for Security Policy in terms of ensuring Space Security. The problem of Asteroid Hazard is singled out, and the possibility of its elimination using the Science & Space LLC launch vehicle as a carrier of kinetic weapons is described. The legal basis for the use of weapons in outer space and the inevitability of liability for their use are considered – even in the kinetic missile version, which is not a weapon of mass destruction. The world experience in the topic of Global and Space Security under study is considered.

Keywords: space law, global security, space security, space activity, kinetic rocket, anti-asteroid defense, surveillance program

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Prysiazhnyy, Volodymyr, Alexander Levenko, and Oleg Pauk (2023) Global Security: Ukrainian HOPSIS Program and Space Mission to Destroy Asteroids. Advanced Space Law, Volume 11, 60-70. https://doi.org/10.29202/asl/11/6
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