Subject(s): Disarmament -- Weapon -- space Security -- Sputnik and Russia's outer space activities -- Outer space treaty -- China's space activities -- Current CD development regarding PAROS -- Space security and developing countries -- Alternative approaches for ensuring space security -- Putting current space militarization and weaponization dynamics in perspective -- Fundamental ways to ensure outer space security: Negotiating and concluding a legally binding international instrument -- Treaty on the prevention of the placement of weapons in outer space, the threat of use of forced against outer space objects -- Space security index: changing trends in space security and the outer space treaty -- Development in Ballistic missile defence -- Hit-to-kill and the threat to space assets -- Orbital debris produced by kinetic energy anti-satellite weapons -- Code of conduct for responsible space-faring nations -- Cooperative management of the space environment -- Study on space traffic management by the international academy of astronautics -- Security dimensions of space traffic management -- ban on destructive anti-satellite weapons -- Overcoming institutional inertia