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Spaceportopia: A Primer For Successful Launch Site Planning
By Karen Jones & Lindsay DeMarchi
Public and private sector actors are considering new spaceport sites. However, are they considering the long-term economic and environmental impacts on the surrounding region?
Featured Papers
Spaceportopia: A Primer For Successful Launch Site Planning
Public and private sector actors are considering new spaceport sites. However, are they considering the long-term economic and environmental impacts on the surrounding region?
By Karen Jones & Lindsay DeMarchi
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/spaceportopia-primer-successful-launch-site-planning
A Comprehensive Guide to the U.S. Federal Civil Space Budget
The U.S. federal appropriations budget funds projects that support, enable, or leverage civil space activities. Navigate this comprehensive, foundational dataset for references between FY23 and proposed spending in FY25, spanning more than 100 individual line items spread across 17 federal departments and agencies and funded by 4 different appropriations bills.
By Lindsay DeMarchi
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/comprehensive-guide-us-federal-civil-space-budget
U.S. Policy Decisions That Shaped Civil and Commercial Use of GPS
Decisions made in previous presidential administrations have influenced the current state of GPS. Where do we go from here?
By Brian Weeden
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/us-policy-decisions-shaped-civil-and-commercial-use-gps
Latest Events & News
How Stuff Works: Rapid Launch
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode156-how-stuff-works-rapid-launch
Rapid Open-Source Intel
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode155-rapid-open-source-intel
Emerging Challenges and Opportunities for Civil and Commercial Uses of GPS
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/2025-05-27-emerging-challenges-and-opportunities-civil-and-commercial-uses-gps
National Security
How Stuff Works: Rapid Launch
Rocket launches are exciting business, but there’s a LOT that goes on behind the scenes and before the rocket is rolled out to the pad. Learn more from this ‘How Stuff Works’ episode!
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode156-how-stuff-works-rapid-launch
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
Poland: Country Brief
Poland is seeking to expand its space activities. How can the United States benefit from a more mature Polish space program?
By Sam Wilson
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/poland-country-brief
The Business of Space
Rapid Propulsion & Power
Nuclear power and propulsion for space has a long history yet there continue to be hurdles from lack of mission to perceived safety concerns. That could be changing as humans stretch to travel further in space and live on celestial bodies like the Moon and Mars.
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode157-rapid-propulsion-power
Science & Technology
Rapid Propulsion & Power
Nuclear power and propulsion for space has a long history yet there continue to be hurdles from lack of mission to perceived safety concerns. That could be changing as humans stretch to travel further in space and live on celestial bodies like the Moon and Mars.
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode157-rapid-propulsion-power
Exploration, Society, & the Future
A Comprehensive Guide to the U.S. Federal Civil Space Budget
The U.S. federal appropriations budget funds projects that support, enable, or leverage civil space activities. Navigate this comprehensive, foundational dataset for references between FY23 and proposed spending in FY25, spanning more than 100 individual line items spread across 17 federal departments and agencies and funded by 4 different appropriations bills.
By Lindsay DeMarchi
Published Date
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/comprehensive-guide-us-federal-civil-space-budget