Authority for Space Operations (1983: Doomsday)
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The League of Nations Authority for Space Operations.
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[edit] The Authority
The LoNASO is a division of the WCRB (1983: Doomsday), the World Census and Recalamtion Bureau which itself has been placed under League of Nations Authority just recently. The task of the LoNASO is to coordinate and supervise any and all global activity related to space exploration, and manned and unmanned spacefaring.
[edit] TASR
The legal basis for the LoNASO's authority is the multilateral Treaty for Astronomical and Space Research (TASR), also known as the "Guiana Treaty" referring to the location where the decisive negotiations took place in November and December 2008. The TASR is partially based on the former Outer Space Treaty (1967) of the United Nations.
TASR was primarily negotiated between the LoN High Council Members, ANZC, SAC, Nordic Union and the Atlantic Defense Community as well as the Union of Socialist Sovereign Republics.
[edit] Consolidation
The idea of coordinating and supervising spaceflight and missile launch capabilities as well as the technologies was not new. Already back in 1989 there where first tries originating from the ANZUS members, trying to safeguard technological knowledge as well as any related hardware in order to prevent terrorists or other interested people from gaining control of these resources.
Especially the Chinese and Soviet capacities being in rather unknown hands might prove a serious threat to all and every nations surviving Doomsday. As the ANZUS Pact and its associates as well as the surviving European Governments (now assembled in the Atlantic Defense Community) achieved their goal in safeguarding much of the old NATO Know-How and Hardware in the years following Doomsday, they then layed their focus on preventing the USSR and Chinese capacities from spreading around the world.
[edit] Cooperation
Early in 1988 the ANZC tried to convince the Socalist Union in helping securing remains of USSR Know-How.
But though having been quite successful, the talks were suspended in face of the 1989 Alaskan invasion and not reestablished until 1994.
After relucting for years fearing this to be a try to reestablish old American/Anglophonic strength, new USSR Leader Aman Tuleyev in 2001 restarted the talks, having been "motivated" by the rising influence of the Green MOvement in the population, having spread to Siberia just recently.
After not advancing for 2 further years, finally in November 2004 the ANZC and the USSR signed a bilateral agreement. This established a joint and coordinated strategy to secure remaining resources related to missile, spacefaring and satellite systems. Though having been forced by Tuleyev providing technical help in the maintenance and funds to the USSR installations, the ANZC showed itself "proud of having overcome old West-East antipathy".
[edit] Constitution
The treaty caused divided reactions especially amongst the SAC and to a lesser extent the European Government, it was generally seen as a good step at a good time. Already cooperating in the operation of the Guiana Space Centre, the SAC and the European Remainder Governmetns rapidly offered to start talks about a global treaty concerning Spaceflight activities and related activities. The calcule of all 4 main global actors was to establish some kind of control over the other´s capacities. Welcomed by the Global Green&Peace Movement (aiming at disposing everything that might cause a new Doomsday) detailed talks started in January 2006.
After several suspensions following government changes in diverse countries and "new" nations demanding to being heard, the talks were transferred to secret and integrated into the League of Nations talks.
Within this negotiating structure and being kept largely out of public discussion soon advances were made. The basic and most important decisions made reflected the delicacy and complexity of the issue,. ranging into Head of State meetings.
- A new agency would be founded within the LoN- body - The "Authority for Spatial Operations". It's seat would be at Kourou, French Guinea
- Each of the four main actors would focus its spaceflight and related activities to one location within it's territory. Those areas would be put under the authority of the ASO, though officially remaining part of the host nation. With respect to the USSR there is until now no definition if "all" activities includes all eventually existing military installations and programs as well. Talks about this are still ongoing and prove extremely difficult.
- Socialist Siberia:Vostochny Cosmodrom, built in Amur in 1998. Plans included building the planed Mir space station, launching the GLONASS (Russian: ГЛОНАСС, abbreviation of ГЛОбальная НАвигационная Спутниковая Система; tr.: GLObal'naya NAvigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema; "GLObal NAvigation Satellite System" in English) satellite network and other ambitious scientific projects.
- Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand : [...] "Commonwealth Aerospace Complex" at ... A newly built facility based on US technology. It even includes material being recaptured from Vandenbergh AFB and the Space shuttle launch site in Florida.... It's construction started already in 1996 and is scheduled to finish around July 2010 and was one of the most ambitious construction projects for the young Commonwealth, being accompanied by large public discussion about the sensefulness of this project.
- South American Confederation & Atlantic Defense Community (1983: Doomsday): Guiana Space Centre in Kourou. Already being on the top of worldwide activities, and jointly operated since a long time. The first launch of the new-generation "Odyssey" rocket jointly built by several South American and European states on January 1st, 2001 marked a first milestone in Post-Doomsday spacefaring. PLans of a secondary complex on the territory of either the Azores or Canada are being discussed.
- Commercial, private activity related to will be put under strict authority and control by the LoNASO to secure no know-how will spread uncontrolled.
[edit] Calculations
With ceding national capabilities in this sensitive sector all participating governments hope to set an example for further and more intense global cooperation. The multilateral progress also mounts pressure on the several ambitious states of the "Axis of Evil", an expression credited to ANZC PM John Key to name the agressive dictatorships, agitators endangering world's advances. Namely this includes:
