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No Haven for Misbehavin': A Framework for Verifying Space Norms
By Michael Gleason
Can an international space situational awareness (SSA) data sharing framework for assessing countries’ norms of behavior compliance build enough support—from enough countries—to influence bad actors’ behavior in space?
Featured Papers
No Haven for Misbehavin': A Framework for Verifying Space Norms
Can an international space situational awareness (SSA) data sharing framework for assessing countries’ norms of behavior compliance build enough support—from enough countries—to influence bad actors’ behavior in space?
By Michael Gleason
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/no-haven-misbehavin-framework-verifying-space-norms
Assessing Commercial Solutions for Government Space Missions
With government organizations increasingly leveraging commercial offerings to meet space mission needs, is there a framework that provides a structured approach to inform government acquirers when to buy, adapt, adopt, or create a solution in the national interest?
By Ronald Birk
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/assessing-commercial-solutions-government-space-missions
Global Communications Infrastructure: Undersea and Beyond
With undersea cable infrastructure serving as the primary means for intercontinental and “long-haul” by communications, can policies be developed that will secure UCI, making it more resilient and less vulnerable?
By Karen Jones & Lori Gordon
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/global-communications-infrastructure-undersea-and-beyond
Latest Events & News
Space: Safe, Secure and Sustainable
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode092-space-safe-secure-and-sustainable
GPS for Humanity- What's Next?
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode091-gps-humanity-whats-next
Curating Space Exploration at the Smithsonian
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode090-curating-space-exploration-smithsonian
National Security
Educating the Space Forces at NSSI
Space is both part of, and separate from, other war domains – sea, air, and land. What’s needed to ready our forces across all the military services for successful space operations? How do we train and educate jointly, and with other countries, to protect common interests?
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode086-educating-space-forces-nssi
Space Traffic Operations & Debris
Space Rescue
Listen to experts George Nield (former FAA) and Grant Cates (Aerospace) talk to Kreston Barron of The Center for Space Policy & Strategy about how commercial spaceflight providers and US policymakers could help improve the safety of space travel.
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode068-space-rescue
National Policies & International Relations
Competition In The Pacific
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/2021-12-02-competition-pacific
The Business of Space
Assessing Commercial for Government Space
Government agencies are increasingly looking to the commercial sector to meet their space mission needs. What are the drivers toward this hybrid architecture? How can government assess commercial readiness? Are there best practices the commercial sector could install?
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode094-assessing-commercial-government-space
Science & Technology
America is ending anti-satellite missile tests
Simply put, these tests are dangerous, and we will not conduct them.” So said Kamala Harris, America’s vice-president, in a speech on April 18th at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Ms Harris was announcing an American ban on full-fledged testing of “direct-ascent anti-satellite missiles”—ground-launched weapons designed to blow up satellites in orbit.
https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2022-04-23-america-ending-anti-satellite-missile-tests
Exploration, Society, & the Future
Bringing More Stars to Space: DEI Across the Sector
From industry and commercial to government and national laboratories, the space sector has a problem. Growing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the sector will ensure the future of a space workforce that encompasses the talent, innovation, and resilience needed to stay competitive.
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode093-bringing-more-stars-space-dei-across-sector
Climate Change & the Environment
Fishing with Satellites- Illegal, Unreported, Unregulated
1 in 5 fish that land on a dinner plate in America is a result of illegal fishing. How do satellites identify illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing around the globe? What remote sensing data can be combined to better understand the extent of illegal fishing beyond what shipboard trackers do?
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode080-fishing-satellites-illegal-unreported-unregulated