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Fiscal Year 2023 Space Force Budget Analysis: Missile Warning and Tracking Looms Large
By Sam Wilson
This year’s budget request includes an increase for the USSF from last year’s appropriations. How does the FY 2023 budget affect U.S. space systems and missions?
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Fiscal Year 2023 Space Force Budget Analysis: Missile Warning and Tracking Looms Large
This year’s budget request includes an increase for the USSF from last year’s appropriations. How does the FY 2023 budget affect U.S. space systems and missions?
By Sam Wilson
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/fiscal-year-2023-space-force-budget-analysis-missile-warning-and-tracking-looms-large
Policy Compliance Roadmap for Small Satellites
The proliferation of small satellites has led to large numbers of new entrants into the space business. How do space policies apply to satellite missions that may not fit the typical mold?
By Barbara Manganis Braun & Sam Sims
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/policy-compliance-roadmap-small-satellites
Commercial Normentum: Space Security Challenges, Commercial Actors, and Norms of Behavior
Given the steadily increasing role of commercial actors in international space activities, are there possibilities for commercial stakeholders to participate in the development of space norms beyond safety and sustainability in peacetime, including into situations involving hostile action?
By Robin Dickey
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/commercial-normentum-space-security-challenges-commercial-actors-and-norms-behavior
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National Security
Fiscal Year 2023 Space Force Budget Analysis: Missile Warning and Tracking Looms Large
This year’s budget request includes an increase for the USSF from last year’s appropriations. How does the FY 2023 budget affect U.S. space systems and missions?
By Sam Wilson
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/fiscal-year-2023-space-force-budget-analysis-missile-warning-and-tracking-looms-large
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