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Title: The Center for the Study of Space Crime, Policy, and Governance Announces First Annual Space Piracy Conference, Set for February 2025

Cleveland, OH, United States, 30th May 2024, King NewsWire - The Center for the Study of Space Crime, Policy, and Governance (CSCPG), an independent, nonpartisan think tank, today announced that it will present the first annual Space Piracy Conference on February 11 and 12, 2025. Planning is in progress for the by invitation only symposium, which will take place in Annapolis, Maryland. The conference will feature leading policy thinkers, financiers, executives, and entrepreneurs from multiple disciplines in discussions about the risks of piracy in space and solutions to this potentially devastating economic and legal problem.Piracy and crime in space are at this point largely theoretical problems. However, expert consensus is that the rapid commercial growth of the space sector will inevitably result in criminal activity—a challenge that current treaties, legal frameworks, law enforcement, and military/intelligence capabilities are unable to address. “Now is the time to start thinking and talking about mitigating the threat of piracy in space,” said Marc Feldman, Executive Director of the CSCPG. “As we like to say, and please forgive me, Leon Trotsky, but you may not be interested in space piracy, but space pirates are interested in you….” Feldman, who has worked in the space venture sector for many years, is co-author, with Hugh Taylor, of the book Space Piracy: Preparing for a Criminal Crisis in Orbit, which is scheduled for publication by John Wiley & Sons in January, 2025.The conference will facilitate a series of integrative, multi-threaded dialogues. Sessions will explore the risks of crime and piracy in space from the perspectives of finance, commercial insurance and risk management, space law, space policy, intelligence, international relations, and the...

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