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The Green Circularity: Life Cycle Assessments for the Space Industry
By Karen Jones
Can environmental life cycle assessments (E-LCAs) be used to understand the space sector’s cradle-to-grave impacts across space and terrestrial environments?

Featured Papers
The Green Circularity: Life Cycle Assessments for the Space Industry

Can environmental life cycle assessments (E-LCAs) be used to understand the space sector’s cradle-to-grave impacts across space and terrestrial environments?
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/green-circularity-life-cycle-assessments-space-industry
Singapore: Country Brief

As space operations become increasingly global, is Singapore well positioned to both support its existing role as an aviation and maritime hub as well as further its development of space capabilities?
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/singapore-country-brief
Enabling a New Space Paradigm: Harnessing Space Mobility and Logistics

Can the U.S. Space Force mature its Space Mobility and Logistics (SM&L) capabilities using four approaches—Participant, Customized, Anchor Tenant, and Owner—that do not readily exist in space today?
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/enabling-new-space-paradigm-harnessing-space-mobility-and-logistics
Latest Events & News
ASATs, Diplomats, and More Than That

https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode116-asats-diplomats-and-more-0
South Korean Objectives in the Final Frontier

https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2023-03-08-south-korean-objectives-final-frontier
Reinventing the Western Range

https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode115-reinventing-western-range
National Security
Issue Brief: 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?
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/issue-brief-fiscal-year-2023-space-force-budget-analysis-missile-warning-and-tracking-looms
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://csps.aerospace.org/papers/space-traffic-management-terminology
National Policies & International Relations
Competition In The Pacific

https://csps.aerospace.org/events/2021-12-02-competition-pacific
The Business of Space
Public-Private Synergy in the Space Sector: Risks and Rewards

https://csps.aerospace.org/events/2023-06-29-public-private-synergy-space-sector-risks-and-rewards
Science & Technology
Space-based solar power is getting serious—can it solve Earth’s energy woes?

Better technology and falling launch costs revive interest in a science-fiction technology
https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2022-10-19-space-based-solar-power-getting-serious-can-it-solve-earths-energy-woes-0
Exploration, Society, & the Future
Mapping Our Way to Sustainable Cislunar

How is commercial space contributing to development of a cislunar ecosystem?
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode114-mapping-our-way-sustainable-cislunar
Climate Change & the Environment
The Green Circularity: Life Cycle Assessments for the Space Industry

Can environmental life cycle assessments (E-LCAs) be used to understand the space sector’s cradle-to-grave impacts across space and terrestrial environments?
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/green-circularity-life-cycle-assessments-space-industry