Open up between the two countries

Open up between the two countries all related government departments and agencies participating in new form of space affairs and cooperation dialogue, the first comprehensive dialogue string outside sound in space

Low strengthen cooperation space situational awareness meaningful and significant

Waters perception cooperation low intensive use of space, will make Asia Pacific sea situation more complicated

Low transparency and confidence building measures "space activities, especially the proposed space activities, the international code of conduct coordination and rules of the game will make the space more hasten is heated up

On March 11, the first day of the full space dialogue meeting in Tokyo. The meeting is in June 2011 japan-us security consultative committee meeting (2 + 2 "meeting), and in April 2012, the results of the summit, and Japanese prime minister shinzo Abe's visit to the United States in February this year, the consensus reached by the leaders of the advancing bilateral co-operation in space to carry out the: 2011 japan-us joint statement" 2 + 2 "meeting of the first mentioned, with space unsafe factors in non-traditional security fields increased significantly, the japanese-american will deepen and expand cooperation in space; Mr. Noda's visit to France in 2012 and barack Obama is to deepen the japan-us cooperation space, full space dialogue to reach an agreement; Shinzo Abe's visit to France this year, and President barack Obama to finalize the first the content of the comprehensive space dialogue meeting, the meeting time and location.

Dialogue opens the japan-us all relevant government ministries and agencies involved in new form of space affairs and cooperation dialogue, not only represent the broad, rich and issues. Japanese representatives respectively from ministry of foreign affairs, national space policy office, the science ministry, ministry of economy, the environment ministry, the defense ministry, coast guard and aerospace exploration agency (JAXA), the us representative each from the White House national security council, the office of science and technology policy, the state council, ministry of defence and national aeronautics and space administration. Discuss issues related to resources and disaster management, environmental monitoring, technology development, scientific discovery, national and international security and economic growth, and other fields, including deepening the U.S. global positioning system (GPS) and Japanese quasi zenith satellite system (QZSS) positioning, navigation and timing services, earth observation, data exchange, space-based meteorological observation, asteroid detection and protection, the international space station (iss) and space science cooperation is the traditional space cooperation projects; And both sides space situational Awareness (SSA), the use of space for sea (Maritime Domain Awareness), and space perception "transparency and confidence building measures" (TCBM), especially the proposed space activities, the international code of conduct (CoC) cooperation is both sides new content and new trend of space security cooperation, especially worthy of special attention.