National Space Council meeting emphasizes international cooperation

WASHINGTON — The White House used a Dec. 20 meeting of the National Space Council to discuss the importance of international cooperation but offered few new initiatives along those lines. The purpose of the meeting, the third by the council during the Biden administration and the first since September 2022, was to highlight what the White House described in a fact sheet as "extraordinary progress in broadening and deepening international space partnerships across a range of areas." Those partnerships, Vice President Kamala Harris said in opening remarks, were vital to U.S. leadership in space. "In the coming years, one of…