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Establishing accord among nations, even informally, about space traffic management (STM) in an ever more crowded environment is necessary, but not so easy to accomplish — especially now given rising military tensions in space, according to experts and officials attending the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance (AMOS) conference in Hawaii last week.

“I think it’s clear that STM is a global issue. I think it is clear that it can be effective only if it comes as a result of an international answer,” said Sebastian Moranta during a panel discussion Sept. 30.

Rodolphe Muñoz, a legal officer at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Defense Industry and Space, agreed.

To that end, European and US experts and government officials said, the European Union’s 27 nations and the United States have been exchanging information about their current and planned activities to a greater and greater extent —  both on a bilateral and multilateral level.

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