Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is directing Army Gen. James Dickinson, the head of U.S. Space Command, to lead an effort to develop guidance on the tenets of responsible behavior in space, including not generating long-lived debris, maintaining safe trajectories and separation from other space vehicles, and avoiding the creation of harmful interference. "As more actors come to space, the domain is changing, with an increased risk of collisions, as well as of miscalculations or misunderstandings," Austin wrote in a July…
