Welcome
Space Agenda 2025
Space security, development, and exploration are critical elements of national policy and strategy. Inevitably, the presidential term starting in 2025 will include the need for many high-level decisions on space-related issues. Aerospace has created a series of policy papers—Space Agenda 2025—on issues already at the forefront, or likely to emerge in the next few years.
Featured Papers
Space Leadership Forum: Key Findings
The Aerospace Corporation held an executive-level forum on February 13 to discuss accelerating America's national advantage through commercial space. Leaders from various sectors debated key issues like rapid acquisition, regulatory challenges, and innovation, with breakout sessions focusing on reinforcing U.S. space dominance in five core areas.
By Kara Cunzeman, Brian Weeden & Sam Wilson
Published Date
https://live-csps-portal-drupal.pantheonsite.io/papers/space-leadership-forum-key-findings
Exotic Space Warfare: Military Importance of Sustained Maneuver
Given the increasing competition and emerging threats in space, should sustained space maneuver (SSM) be an essential warfighting principle for the U.S. Space Force?
By Katherine Melbourne
Published Date
https://live-csps-portal-drupal.pantheonsite.io/papers/exotic-space-warfare-military-importance-sustained-maneuver
Space Agenda 2025 Compendium
Space Agenda 2025 is an effort by the Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS) at The Aerospace Corporation to highlight and provide insights into some of the major space challenges facing policymakers. You can read the entire list of Space Agenda 2025 papers here.
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/space-agenda-2025-compendium
Latest Events & News
Space Science Unfurled
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode154-space-science-unfurled
How Stuff Works: Resilient Skies
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode153-how-stuff-works-resilient-skies
Resilient Global Space Futures
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode152-resilient-global-space-futures
National Security
Space Leadership Forum: Key Findings
The Aerospace Corporation held an executive-level forum on February 13 to discuss accelerating America's national advantage through commercial space. Leaders from various sectors debated key issues like rapid acquisition, regulatory challenges, and innovation, with breakout sessions focusing on reinforcing U.S. space dominance in five core areas.
By Kara Cunzeman, Brian Weeden & Sam Wilson
Published Date
https://live-csps-portal-drupal.pantheonsite.io/papers/space-leadership-forum-key-findings
Space Traffic Operations & Debris
Space Traffic Management Terminology
Space traffic management (STM) is a topic of much international discussion in the aerospace community. But what is STM?
https://live-csps-portal-drupal.pantheonsite.io/papers/space-traffic-management-terminology
National Policies & International Relations
How Stuff Works: Resilient Skies
How can we balance the growing number of satellites on orbit, and the services they provide, with the importance of astronomical science and protecting Dark and Quiet Skies?
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode153-how-stuff-works-resilient-skies
The Business of Space
Space Science Unfurled
What could government do differently to continue fostering private space successes, including full commercialization?
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode154-space-science-unfurled
Science & Technology
How Stuff Works: Space Weather, Satellites & Human Safety
What’s the science behind how space weather affects our satellites and the services they provide?
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode133-how-stuff-works-space-weather-satellites-human-safety
Exploration, Society, & the Future
Space Science Unfurled
What could government do differently to continue fostering private space successes, including full commercialization?
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode154-space-science-unfurled