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Mine Games: Securing America’s Critical Mineral Supply
By Karen Jones
The United States is in a vulnerable position and risks losing access to dozens of minerals crucial for national security programs. What can be done to secure the mineral supply?
Featured Papers
Mine Games: Securing America’s Critical Mineral Supply
The United States is in a vulnerable position and risks losing access to dozens of minerals crucial for national security programs. What can be done to secure the mineral supply?
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/mine-games-securing-americas-critical-mineral-supply
(Space) Ships Passing in the Night: Translating Maritime Rules of the Road for the Space Domain
As space gets more crowded, the likelihood of collisions is increasing. Can “rules of the road” established for other domains be adapted for the space domain?
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/space-ships-passing-night-translating-maritime-rules-road-space-domain
Pack It In, Pack It Out: Updating Policy and Standards for Cislunar Sustainability
Without an urgent effort to revise the Orbital Debris Mitigation Standard Practices (ODMSP) and the downstream requirements, does the community run the risk of setting bad precedents with a patchwork of exceptions, waivers, and idiosyncratic interpretations of the rules that will imperil the long-term sustainability of space beyond GEO?
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/pack-it-pack-it-out-updating-policy-and-standards-cislunar-sustainability
Latest Events & News
Europe Eyes Sustainable Space
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode136-europe-eyes-sustainable-space
Science and Cooperation Against Debris
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode135-science-and-cooperation-against-debris
Space and War in Ukraine: Beyond the Satellites
https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2024-04-03-space-and-war-ukraine-beyond-satellites
National Security
Space and War in Ukraine: Beyond the Satellites
Much of the international attention on the use of space in Russia’s war in Ukraine — commercial space services in particular — has focused on satellite capabilities while ignoring the significance of other aspects of space systems
https://csps.aerospace.org/news/2024-04-03-space-and-war-ukraine-beyond-satellites
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
Science and Cooperation Against Debris
With 13 national space agency members, what is on the docket for this year’s annual IADC meeting?
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode135-science-and-cooperation-against-debris
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
Forging Ahead in Cislunar
The National Cislunar Science & Technology Strategy was released by the White House in November 2022. How does this visionary strategy lean into the interests of the US, our international partners, and industry?
https://csps.aerospace.org/events/show/episode125-forging-ahead-cislunar