"Red Moon" should not push the big powers to compete … Masaru

10:25 p.m.

Friday, January 04, 2019

(BBC)

Most British newspapers on Friday were busy following China's scientific achievements by installing a probe on the dark side of the moon, the first successful attempt and landing on that side of the moon.

In addition to news reports, some newspapers have devoted editorial articles and a number of opinion articles on this subject.

The Times, the "Red Moon," gave an editorial title that emphasized that competition between the major powers should not turn outer space into an invasion zone without organized laws.

The editorial indicates that more than six decades after the beginning of the era of space travel, in 1957, with the launch of the first Soviet vehicle Sputnik 1, we could see images from the side obscure moon as well as images of an asteroid located 6.5 billion kilometers from the Earth. Which consists of a giant snowball, about 30 kilometers wide, the farthest point reached by a space probe in our solar system.

However, according to the newspaper editorial, the scientific discoveries are source of geopolitical tensions: the probe, which landed on the moon, belongs to the Chinese National Space Agency and the probe, which reached the point the farthest from our solar system, is NASA, and therefore belongs to the two greatest world powers in the twenty-first century.

The paper claims that this competition for space travel between the world's great powers threatens to make it an invasion zone without organized laws, and possibly a source of potential conflicts in the decades to come. come.

The paper concludes that these forces must transcend this competition to control the space of the galaxy, noting that, technically, the 1967 Outer Space Treaty prevents governments from claiming ownership of any area of ​​the galaxy. Outer space, but allows the signatories to withdraw it after the notification So a year ago.

The moon and asteroids may seem as far apart as the Alaska region, when Britain and Russia competed for property in the 18th and 19th centuries.

He explained that the United States and China had a different perception of the role of space exploration and that the existing system of international law and existing cooperation were not enough to prevent a chaotic control conflict. Resource.