Global Cooperation Needed to Manage Space Resources, Says ITU Chief

WASHINGTON, September 20, 2025 – The International Telecommunication Union is elevating space issues to the center of its agenda. The next World Radiocommunication Conference in 2027 is planned to be hosted in China, and 80 percent of its program will be devoted to space policy, said Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin.

Speaking Friday at the Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy – TPRC – at American University’s Washington College of Law, Bogdan-Martin emphasized that spectrum for space-related services is a limited and contested resource and must be managed through global cooperation.

She said the ITU is considering new spectrum allocations for mobile satellite service and direct-to-device connectivity, as well as laying the technical groundwork for a potential lunar communications network.