The Space Security Index

The purpose of the Space Security Index is to facilitate dialogue on space security challenges and potential responses. The annual report also provides a comprehensive pedagogical tool on the concept of space security to inform debate among stakeholders and policy-makers. Therefore, the Space Security Index provides facts and focus in an important debate that has become unnecessarily polarized.

The Space Security Index is the first and only annual, comprehensive, and integrated assessment of space security. Based on nine indicators of space security, it provides background information and in-depth analysis on key space security trends and developments. The annual assessment has two key components:

A policy-neutral fact-base of trends and developments in space security based on primary, open-source research.

An assessment of the status of space security based on a consultative process engaging a broad cross-section of space stakeholders through an online expert survey and a working group of space experts.

Spacesecurity.org is a consortium of governmental, non-governmental, and academic organizations that produces the annual Space Security Index. The member organizations of Spacesecurity.org are: Secure World Foundation; Project Ploughshares; the Simons Foundation; Institute of Air and Space Law at McGill University; and the Space Generation Foundation. Spacesecurity.org also cooperates with the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada.

The views expressed in the Space Security Index represent those of the experts engaged throughout the process and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Government of Canada or the other partner organizations of Spacesecurity.org.

For more information and to order copies of the Space Security Report, please contact the SSI Project Manager:

Cesar Jaramillo
Program Associate
Project Ploughshares
Tel: (519) 888-6541, ext. 708
Fax: (519) 888-0018
www.ploughshares.ca
cjaramillo@ploughshares.ca