Washington and Beijing are making efforts to avoid a crisis in
space before it happens. The US and China have set up a direct link — or
“hotline” — allowing both nations to easily share information about
activities in space. Specifically, the so-called space hotline is
designed to help the space and military agencies of both countries to
discuss “potential collisions, approaches, or tests,” according to The Financial Times.
Like the well-known “red telephone,” set up between Moscow and
Washington in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the idea is to
keep a misunderstanding or other miscommunication from escalating to a
dangerous situation in space and here on Earth.
According to a US assistant secretary of state, before the…
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