The Artemis Accords is a non-binding multilateral arrangement between the United States government and other world governments participating in the Artemis program, an American-led effort to return humans to the Moon by 2025, with the ultimate goal of expanding space exploration to Mars and beyond.

As of October 10, 2023, twenty-nine countries and one territory have signed the accords

The provisions:

• Affirm that cooperative activities under these Accords should be exclusively for peaceful purposes and in accordance with relevant international.

• Confirm a commitment to transparency and to share scientific information, consistent with Article XI of the Outer Space.

• Call for a commitment to use reasonable efforts to utilize current interoperability standards for space-based infrastructure, and to establish standards when they do not exist or are inadequate.

• Call for a commitment to take all reasonable efforts to render necessary assistance to personnel in outer space who are in distress and according to their obligations under the Rescue and Return Agreement.

• Specify responsibility for the registration of objects in space, as required by the Registration Convention

• Call for a commitment to publicly share information on their activities and to the open sharing of scientific data. While doing so, signatories agree to coordinate with each other to provide appropriate protection for any proprietary and/or export-controlled information, and this provision does not extend to private sector operations unless conducted on behalf of a signatory.

• Include an agreement to preserve outer space heritage, which they consider to comprise historically significant human or robotic landing sites, artifacts, spacecraft, and other evidence of activity, and to contribute to multinational efforts to develop practices and rules to do so.

• Include an agreement that extraction and utilization of space resources should be conducted in a manner that complies with the Outer Space Treaty and in support of safe and sustainable activities. The signatories affirm that this does not inherently constitute national appropriation, which is prohibited by the Outer Space They also express an intent to contribute to multilateral efforts to further develop international practices and rules on this subject.

•  Reaffirm the signatories commitment to the Outer Space Treaty’s provisions relating to due regard and harmful interference with other nations activities, and to provide information regarding the location and nature of space-based activities.

•  Include a commitment to mitigate space debris and to limit the generation of new, harmful space debris in the normal operations, break-up in operational or post-mission phases, and accidents.