Welcome to the Secure World Foundation

The Secure World Foundation (SWF) is a private operating foundation dedicated to the secure and sustainable use of space for the benefit of Earth and all its peoples. SWF engages with academics, policy makers, scientists and advocates in the space and international affairs communities to support steps that strengthen global space security. We promote the development of cooperative and effective use of space for the protection of the Earth’s environment and human security. The Foundation acts as a research body, convener and facilitator to advocate for key space security and other space related topics and to examine their influence on governance and international development.

Space systems and the many benefits they provide have matured to the point that human security now depends directly on the long term security of space systems.

SWF focuses its efforts on four realms of long term critical need:

• Promoting the long term sustainable use of outer space, which requires:
• Promotion of an international cooperative space situational awareness system
• Development of an international space traffic management system
• Effective international management of orbital debris
• Ensuring the peaceful uses of outer space
• Protecting Earth from the threat of collision from near Earth objects (NEOs)
• Using space systems to protect and preserve Earth’s environment