" . . . is bru your courage colonel and all the astronauts in your determination and incredible skill, you and all the Artemis to astronauts are helping to lead our nation and the world back to the moon and today. On the fourth anniversary of the establishment of the United States space course, I will recognize the guardians who are with us. I'd like you to stand pleaso wake it up. Is each and all of you collectively for the work that you do. You make our nation so proud and thank you for your service. So with that, welcome everyone to the third convening of our national space council, including the members of our administration, the private sector leaders who are here. And of course, are International partners. The mission of the national space council is to preserve and advance America's leadership in space. Is 10 that leadership is by strengthening our International partnerships, combining our resources, scientific capacity and technical skill with that of our allies and partners around the world. All in furtherance of our collective vision here today are representatives from 33 nations long-standing and new partners all committed to work together in pursuit of shared priorities. Is human space exploration on each of the climate crisis earlier this month? I was with many of you where I represented the United States at cop 28. There. I declared nations must work together with more ambition and urgency to protect our world from climate disaster and to advance climate action here. Is roll rely on images and data collected in space to help fight against the climate crisis to track deforestation to predict the path of hurricanes and wildfires to measure greenhouse gas emissions and to help reduce pollution as part of this work. Earlier this year, I received a briefing at NASA Goddard on the innovative partnership. We have with South Korea and the European Union to use satellites to track. Is the result of course, being that policymakers and public health officials across South America and the continent of Africa may not have access then to important data to issue. For example, air quality warnings to draft cleaner laws. Is downloadable, so to fix this problem we worked with. Patience Is global collaboration to take on global challenges? My secondary focus today is the need to establish and strengthen International rules and norms for the peaceful and responsible use of space. Common understandings of what is permissible and what is not President Biden and I are deeply committed to preserve and strengthen the long-standing rules and norms. Is to establish new standards to meet the challenges of the 21st century. In particular, in areas such as AI, cyber security and of course space to promote stability, sustainability prosperity, and peace. Last year I issued a global challenge for all nations to join our commitment not to conduct destructive direct assent anti satellite. Is also led the development of the Artemis accords to establish clear norms for civil space exploration since the last meeting of our council. 12 more nations have signed on bringing the total number to 33. All of whom are represented here today. Finally, last year, I announced that the United States would develop the first regulatory framework for novel commercial space. This I believe is one of the most significant steps. We have taken to shape the future of the commercial space industry. President Biden and I are committed to establishing rules for commercial space activities that are strong enough to promote the safe and predictable use of space. But flexible enough to ensure that we do not stifle innovation. We intend that these domestic rules. Is the most ambitious space exploration effort in generations for the first time in more than half a century, the United States will return astronauts to the lunar surface. We will establish the first lunar base camp and the first station in lunar orbit. All of this inclaboration with our allies and partners. For example, the service model that will help. Is in recognition of the essential role that our allies and partners play in the Artemis program. I'm proud then to announce that alongside American astronauts. We intend to land an International astronaut on the surface of the moon by the end of the decade. This announcement and this meeting of our national space council is further demonstration of our belief in the. I believe we are all here together because we agree space is a place of extraordinary opportunity so our task dare. I say our duty, as nations must be to work together to make that opportunity real and to preserve it for future generations. Make God bless you all and make God bless the United States of America. Thank you Today as well as in this remarkable and historic space. I don't want to start by thanking the Vice President for not just convening us today. But for her stewardship of the national space council, our leadership, America's leadership in space is critical to so many priorities here at home or in national security to our economic and technological adjustments to our strength and standing around the world, the remarkably diverse voices on this council. Reflect this expansive set of priorities and again. It's so good to be with cop. Space related capabilities like GPS technology satellite data are more integrated. But our economy than ever before at the same time. I think we all know that new challenges have arisen, including from our strategic competitors. The landscape in which we operate now is. It's important both for our own people, but also for humankind. Our obligation today is to shape the future of the space environment so that it benefits. All those benefits are maximized for people around the world and for generations to come from our perspective. One of the most effective ways that we can do. This is by leveraging our partnerships by leading with diplomacy. We are best position to advance discoveries that benefit us at home. That were made possible by International partnership and International collaboration today. What i'd like to do is just briefly update the council on 3 lines of effort that the State department is leading to advanced International partnerships on space ferrari's, and the Vice President has touched on a number of these, but let me just footstop to you with the points that she made first with our colleagues and NASA. We've drawn the coalition. Countries under the autumn supports a set of practical principles to guide safe peaceful. It's earlier this month to the ambassadors here with us today. From those Artemis countries, thank you. Thank you for your partnership. Thank you for your collaboration. We are determined to continue expanding this coalition. And he spanned his areas of cooperation as well. Like we did this past October in Baku. When we agreed to take practical steps to increase. A single test, a single test can release thousands of pieces of debris and space and we know it takes only one piece of debris traveling at thousands of miles an hour to destroy satellite or threaten the life of an astronaut. Since Vice President Harris committed in April 20 two, the United States would refrain from conducting anti satellite missile tests 36 countries. As you've heard, have pledged to do the same next year will continue our diplomatic. We're leading with the pumps. Advancing space policy to leverage space activities to meet a wider range of diplomatic goals. For example, making progress on the climate crisis, a tiny with pollution dealing with illegal under reported and unregulated fishing as part of those efforts. We're continuing capacity building outreach to emerging space and varying nations. And here these partnership. Maintain American leadership in space early next year will add an expert focused on space to our science and what program of the state department. One of the most remarkable powers of face exploration is its ability to bring people together cross geography's in pursuit of knowledge of the wider universe. And in pursuit of progress right here on Earth. So for the state department I can tell you. We look forward to continue close collaboration with this council. Efforts at the NSC to integrate space and do our overall national security policy. And I know you put a premium on International partnerships and licenses and i'd ask you to brief the council on those efforthank you Philip and building on both Vice President and secretary blinkin and until your question we see national security economic security climate security food security A. Is ensure that across all of our lines of effort. The ways in which are approach to space policy is integrated with the key priorities in each of these areas. You mentioned one in particular and it picks up on the third line of effort that secretary blink and just laid out that the state department is leading and that is how we mobilize the whole government to deepen partnerships in space because when we are working together with the range of countries represented in this room and others as. Well it Is chips? We recently signed a new technology safeguards agreement with Australia. For example, which promotes greater cooperation between our space industries and greater protections for sensitive launch launch technology. We've started a new initiative which he lay to build out Latin America's regional space industry. So we can better see satellite technology to tackle the biggest challenges of our time like climate change and food and security. And Chile will probably be quite interested in the satellite coverage of the space. Is an aligning our space security strategies as well? And we're developing plans to launch a new 1.5 billion dollar Earth observation satellite with India, which will map the entirety of the earth's surface every 12 days by early next year and if you look back over the course of the last 2 years, we've led comprehensive dialogues with countries. Like Japan and France on space and these have become templates that we're now extending to other countries as well. His and the threats in in 2 space of all his will and speaking of threats and challenges of course, part of the job, the national security council is to focus on this aspect as well. So earlier this year, President Biden actually released new classified space security guidance, which lays out our policies for our national security space community and I want to thank all of the members of that community or herer in the room. Today it lays out plans to counter emerging threat soon. Is generalized importance on space on resilience and operations on capabilities on information sharing. So we now at the endesthesia, driving the implementation of this alongside all of the public facing elements of our integrated space strategy that you will hear Over the course of the rest of the meeting today. And finally, I just point out that we are continuing to ensure that our regulations like export controls are protecting against weapons proliferation without interfering with and in fact, while promoting space. Database Is one partnership with all of you and that goes for all of our partners both around the world, and all of our partners across the interagency reflected on this diosire today so thank you felt great thank you Drake. I want to turn next to the director of national intelligence of real hands and I really know how much the 2 previous speakers rely on the work that you do and I don't know how much the work that you do relies on space and how important it is not just to US national security but to. Allies importance as well. But I really want to say appreciates. How much the intelligence community appreciates the leadership that the space council has had in this area under obviously the Vice President's too legit. Just to promote security safety resilience in the space domain so as to allow for the kind of exploration and use of space that we all recognize as critical to our future. And of course in the ICS, we say we. We try to do our part by helping. You know the folks around this room but also more general. Is so our allies and partners space-based capabilities that we are focused on and to be clear. Many of these threats present themselves not only to national space base asset but also to commercial systems and understanding those threads building resilience. Protecting our assets are fundamental to ensuring that we and our allies and partners are able to take advantage of the opportunities presented by space and protect our capacity to explore and use face to support such things as critical infant. Is cyberthreats really to ground sites and to space-based infrastructure, China and Russia and particular continue to invest heavily in and are fielding counter space weapons that can jam satellites ground-based capabilities that can do the same directed energy weapons and space-based any satellite weapons that are intended to disrupt to damage destroy. Target satellites, including through Connecticut attacks and these include weapons that when used or likely.