ITU Secretary-General takes stock of space sustainability efforts — the hill just climbed, the mountain still to come

by Peter B. de Selding

LA PLATA, Maryland — It was not long after her election in 2023 as Secretary-General of the 194-nation International Telecommunication Union (ITU) that Doreen Bogdan-Martin began speaking out on the issue of orbital debris, the increased crowding of low Earth orbit and other topics related to space sustainability.

The question then was: Would this really be a priority of her term given that many large ITU members want the ITU to stick to its knitting and focus on radio spectrum?

More than two years later . . .

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