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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
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://csps.aerospace.org/papers/exotic-space-warfare-military-importance-sustained-maneuver
Framing Space Agenda Through Strategic Foresight
Nations worldwide are competing to control the space realm. How can the United States ensure American leadership and stewardship in space?
By Kara Cunzeman
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/framing-space-agenda-through-strategic-foresight
Space-Enabled Capabilities for Connecting and Collaborating in the Arctic
Space capabilities and flexible architectures have become vital in the Arctic region. Looking ahead, what recommendations can be implemented?
By Karen Jones & Lina Cashin
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/space-enabled-capabilities-connecting-and-collaborating-arctic
Latest Events & News
Deep Dive: Sustaining Contested Space
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode151-deep-dive-sustaining-contested-space
Deep Dive: Advancing Science & Exploration
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode150-deep-dive-advancing-science-exploration
Deep Dive: Measuring the Space Economy
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode149-deep-dive-measuring-space-economy
National Security
Deep Dive: Sustaining Contested Space
n any future conflict, space will be involved – from jamming to cyber-attacks or worse. The orbital environment may not be able to withstand more debris from explosions or derelict objects orbiting uncontrolled. How can we engage remediation with new technologies, mitigation through better designs, and regulating with flexibility to ensure growth in a contested environment?
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode151-deep-dive-sustaining-contested-space
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
Deep Dive: Advancing Science & Exploration
The promise of return from investments in low Earth orbit (LEO) and cislunar, including the lunar surface, is the reason humans continue scientific and exploratory endeavors in space. But what are those returns, and how could they benefit humanity and economic activity?
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode150-deep-dive-advancing-science-exploration
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
Deep Dive: Advancing Science & Exploration
The promise of return from investments in low Earth orbit (LEO) and cislunar, including the lunar surface, is the reason humans continue scientific and exploratory endeavors in space. But what are those returns, and how could they benefit humanity and economic activity?
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode150-deep-dive-advancing-science-exploration