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Leveraging Digital Engineering for Space Guardians and Space Explorers
By Angie Bukley
Digital engineering can enable cooperation and process commonality between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the United States Space Force. Can the incorporation of the digital engineering process significantly improve the pace of evolution of space systems in the national interest?
Featured Papers
Leveraging Digital Engineering for Space Guardians and Space Explorers
Digital engineering can enable cooperation and process commonality between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the United States Space Force. Can the incorporation of the digital engineering process significantly improve the pace of evolution of space systems in the national interest?
By Angie Bukley
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/leveraging-digital-engineering-space-guardians-and-space-explorers
Avoiding Costly Delays in Human Space Exploration: Historical Perspectives on NASA Programs
Development of a human exploration endeavor is a multi-decade initiative. What lessons have been learned from the past to benefit the future?
By David Eccles
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/avoiding-costly-delays-human-space-exploration-historical-perspectives-nasa-programs
Strategic Foresight for the Space Enterprise
Applying strategic foresight methodologies to the space enterprise is helpful in navigating uncertainty. Can the Four Futures Model better shape our perceptions and plans for future preparedness?
By Kara Cunzeman & Robin Dickey
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/strategic-foresight-space-enterprise
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Fishing with Satellites- Illegal, Unreported, Unregulated
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode080-fishing-satellites-illegal-unreported-unregulated
The DownLink: The No. 1 Space Issue From 2021 That’s Punching Through Into 2022 And Beyond
https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2021-12-31-downlink-no-1-space-issue-2021-thats-punching-through-2022-and-beyond
Fresh Approaches to Fostering the Ideal Guardian
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode079-fresh-approaches-fostering-ideal-guardian
National Security
Designing for Principles: Implementation Steps for the United States Space Force
The United States Space Force (USSF) has the daunting task of developing a more survivable, flexible, and interoperable space architecture in an environment increasingly characterized by extreme complexity and uncertainty. Can the Designing for Principles approach provide a nimbler capability development methodology for the USSF?
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/designing-principles-implementation-steps-united-states-space-force
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
Designing for Principles: Implementation Steps for the United States Space Force
The United States Space Force (USSF) has the daunting task of developing a more survivable, flexible, and interoperable space architecture in an environment increasingly characterized by extreme complexity and uncertainty. Can the Designing for Principles approach provide a nimbler capability development methodology for the USSF?
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/designing-principles-implementation-steps-united-states-space-force
Science & Technology
Space-based solar power 'could be deployed in 10 years'
Space launch costs are dropping rapidly. Solar panels are cheaper than ever. Could space-based solar power soon be price-competitive with nuclear? Promoted as a zero-carbon solution, classified military space planes have also been conducting experiments into wireless power transmission. The FT's Peggy Hollinger looks at whether space-based solar power can move beyond science fiction.
https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2021-11-23-space-based-solar-power-could-be-deployed-10-years
Exploration, Society, & the Future
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
Climate Change & the Environment
Space-based solar power 'could be deployed in 10 years'
Space launch costs are dropping rapidly. Solar panels are cheaper than ever. Could space-based solar power soon be price-competitive with nuclear? Promoted as a zero-carbon solution, classified military space planes have also been conducting experiments into wireless power transmission. The FT's Peggy Hollinger looks at whether space-based solar power can move beyond science fiction.
https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2021-11-23-space-based-solar-power-could-be-deployed-10-years