We commit our Governments to accept financial,
fiduciary, material and technological assessments
for our utilization of the common space-ways. We
agree that these assessments are for the purpose
of defraying the expenditures of any one Government
toward maintaining and upgrading those common
space and traffic management systems that fall
within their borders, or other mutually agreed upon
jurisdictions, and for performing such services for
the common good as:
a. removal of hazards to innocent passage;
b. traffic control;
c. search and rescue;
d. acquisition, deployment, operation and servicing
of communications and navigational aids;
e. construction, operation and maintenance of space
and surface ports of entry and departure for the
common use of all spacecraft;
f. trained, equipped and ready investigation teams
to assist Governments of Primary Concern in
determining the facts of "incidents-in-space"
which occur in proximate international areas, and
g. emergency logistical support capabilities for
performing urgent essential repairs to damaged
spacecraft of other Nations in peaceful transit.
Such repairs shall be to internationally accepted
standards that will permit the craft to continue
its flight to a location designated by the
Government having legal ownership, or authority
to repair or dispose of the spacecraft.
h. We agree that spacecraft, spacecraft parts,
otherwise man-made artificial bodies and parts
thereof, wreckage, and human-generated excess
materials and human waste, will NOT be discarded or
abandoned in space. Derelicts and unattached parts
thereof, rubbish, waste matter, and all man-made
objects in space are considered to be hazards
to traffic or are pollutants. They will be collected
or tagged with an active signal and towed or
transported to where they will not be a hazard
to traffic or pollute the space environment. The
Government of the nearest surface or colony habitat
will be notified immediately and institute actions
for the objects' reduction to harmless residue
or its temporary or permanent removal to a safe
location.