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Standards Progress: Space and Orbital Infrastructure 2026
State of the standards: adoption, conformance, crosswalks, domain and industry profiles. This edition is in preparation: its frame is set and shared with the other five desks, and Nexus Standards writes its chapters from its own mandate. Nothing on these pages is a finding yet.
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- Standards Progress
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- Nexus Standards, GCRI as secretariat
- Collection
- Reports Collection 2026
- Status
- In preparation; not released
Standards Progress
Space and Orbital Infrastructure 2026
State of the standards: adoption, conformance, crosswalks, domain and industry profiles.
01 · Contents
Eight chapters in the shared frame.
The same eight-chapter frame on every desk, so a reader can move across desks and the Collection can align them chapter by chapter. Each chapter title comes from this desk’s mandate.
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Chapter 1. Where standards are needed
The places in the systems in scope where a shared standard is missing or contested.
Frame: The question · In preparation
- 2
Which parts are adopted or applied, by whom, as the adopting bodies state it.
Frame: Findings · In preparation
- 3
Chapter 3. Domain and industry profiles
The domain and industry profiles that read the scope against the parts.
Frame: By system and sector · In preparation.
- 4
Chapter 4. Conformance and assurance
Conformance attested by those who apply the parts, and how each attestation can be checked.
Frame: Risk and capability · In preparation
- 5
How the parts would need to change under stated scenarios; conditional, never predictions.
Frame: Scenario · In preparation
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Chapter 6. Readings from the other desks
Readings from the other desks: cross-references to their editions for the same scope, not copies of them.
Frame: Readings · Seeded from the Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) edition.
- 7
Chapter 7. Standards work programme
The dockets, drafts and reviews the next cycle takes up, under the open development process.
Frame: Agenda · In preparation
- 8
Crosswalks from the parts to the external standards they adopt or align with.
Frame: In depth · In preparation
Annex A (methodology), Annex B (data), Annex C (references and record), the complete edition for print and the citation forms are added at release, in the same form as every edition.
02 · Now
What exists today.
The evidence on Space and Orbital Infrastructure sits today in the GCRI Systems Evidence edition, a draft in stewardship review. This edition cross-references it chapter by chapter and does not copy it.
GCRI Systems Evidence
Space and Orbital Infrastructure 2026
12 findings, 43 sources; drafted, in stewardship review.
NXS reading
Standards and regulatory watch
Printed in the GCRI edition and seeded here in chapter 6, attributed to this desk.
Subject collection
Space and Orbital Infrastructure 2026
Every desk edition for this subject, compiled by GCRI Canada for the Collection.
03 · This desk
What Standards Progress reports on Space and Orbital Infrastructure.
Nexus Standards reads an edition for standards progress: what was adopted, what conformed, what crosswalks exist and what is still a gap.
Nexus Standards deposits adoption and conformance findings, crosswalks and profiles, packaged for machines as well as readers.
If you adopted or assessed a standard, send the clause, the version and the evidence. The desk will map it to the profile it belongs in.
04 · Six desks
Every desk’s edition for Space and Orbital Infrastructure.
| Desk | Edition | State | Identifier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standards Progress | Standards Progress: Space and Orbital Infrastructure 2026 | In preparation | NR-NXS-XT-18-2026-BASELINE (reserved) |
| GCRI Systems Evidence | Systems Evidence: Space and Orbital Infrastructure 2026 | Drafted, in stewardship review | NR-XTECH-SPACE-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0 |
| GRF Public Deliberation | Outside this desk’s remit | Not in remit | |
| GRA Capital Readiness | Outside this desk’s remit | Not in remit | |
| Academy Capability | Capability: Space and Orbital Infrastructure 2026 | In preparation | NR-RA-XT-18-2026-BASELINE (reserved) |
| Index Measurement | Outside this desk’s remit | Not in remit |
05 · Downloads
The print edition of the evidence on Space and Orbital Infrastructure.
This desk’s edition is in preparation and has no print of its own until release. The evidence it cross-references is in the GCRI Systems Evidence edition for Space and Orbital Infrastructure: its designed PDF (A4 or US Letter), its data and its citation files are here, from this site’s library.
Draft, not yet releasedThe print and files of the GCRI edition this desk’s edition cross-references. Review copies until release; the DOI is issued at deposit.
Print
PDF, A4
The GCRI Systems Evidence print edition for this subject, A4: cover, imprint, contents with page numbers, every chapter and annex.
PDF111 pages1.0 MBTagged, with bookmarks.
SHA-256
8c4dbbd845741aa01477d3e218f7a9c1bd3fd1c9644610c3998d5e61ed01a460PDF, US Letter
The GCRI Systems Evidence print edition for this subject, US Letter: cover, imprint, contents with page numbers, every chapter and annex.
PDF119 pages1.0 MBTagged, with bookmarks.
SHA-256
5beb6294fd1c49d157af235f8dd440b9e444f6c26457a69debd3bf2de57c79b9
Web edition
Complete edition, one page
Every chapter and annex at one address, with running heads when printed from the browser.
HTML
Edition home
Key messages, contents, citation and the readings of each desk.
HTML
Data bundle
Indicators, CSV
16 indicators with unit, year, status and source.
NR-XTECH-SPACE-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-indicators.csv1 KB
SHA-256
4a90116430a07dbe5e57baa7f8904075179bc6385b63c856042dba16c9b63fdaIndicators, JSON
The same indicators with the edition’s identity and licence.
NR-XTECH-SPACE-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-indicators.json2 KB
SHA-256
b8069a1ff2fcfff98f5a01d1a2b663c1e4d10ee0e0e124b632467d63096dec9aFindings, CSV
12 findings with status, evidence-quality level and references.
NR-XTECH-SPACE-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE-findings.csv3 KB
SHA-256
40225cd3243ba5f3c53763dd46c8b580552cc11a8a1e4a170a961032c95fe8ea
Citation files
Citation, BibTeX
For LaTeX and reference managers
NR-XTECH-SPACE-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE.bib1 KB
SHA-256
b659eaee4792c57ed954eca4f27e6484854f0d1bf80952a317936248dc4d558cCitation, RIS
For Zotero, EndNote and Mendeley
NR-XTECH-SPACE-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE.ris1 KB
SHA-256
38a4865e518cb7858c297499dbbcbf2964cd6720d148bfac6b27e47f2e67c76cCitation, CITATION.cff
Citation File Format 1.2.0, for GitHub, Zenodo and software catalogues.
NR-XTECH-SPACE-GLOBAL-2026-BASELINE.cff1 KB
SHA-256
7af5a962b0f95a785d4db62edfa8015d18604d0609f2d8968684658bf2a0a984
Check a file with its SHA-256: shasum -a 256 <file> (macOS, Linux) or Get-FileHash <file> (Windows). Text, tables and figures by Nexus: CC BY 4.0; each source keeps its own licence.
06 · Cite
Cite this report.
- Reserved identifier
- NR-NXS-XT-18-2026-BASELINE
- Part of
- NR-COL-2026-BASELINE
- DOI
- Not yet deposited
- Until release
- Cite the GCRI Systems Evidence edition, Space and Orbital Infrastructure 2026, which prints this desk’s reading in its chapter 6. Cite the GCRI edition
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