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FY 2025 Defense Space Budget: Continued Emphasis on Proliferation Under a More Constrained Top-Line
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https://live-csps-portal-drupal.pantheonsite.io/papers/fy-2025-defense-space-budget-continued-emphasis-proliferation-under-more-constrained-top
Should the Space Force Have a Warfighting-Centric Culture?
![Debate Series Thumbnail](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-05/Debate-Series-thumbnail.jpg?h=30af9814&itok=8iCvoZJ8)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/should-space-force-have-warfighting-centric-culture
High Ground or High Fantasy: Defense Utility of Cislunar Space
![Debate Series Thumbnail](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-05/Debate-Series-thumbnail.jpg?h=30af9814&itok=8iCvoZJ8)
https://live-csps-portal-drupal.pantheonsite.io/papers/high-ground-or-high-fantasy-defense-utility-cislunar-space
Lessons from the Cloud: Outsourcing and Integrating Commercial Space Services
![Cover Image for CSPS Paper](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-04/FY24_13037_CSPS_Phase-Change-Lessons-From-Cloud_Thumbnail.jpg?h=b9fd117d&itok=Kh3FZPNk)
https://live-csps-portal-drupal.pantheonsite.io/papers/lessons-cloud-outsourcing-and-integrating-commercial-space-services
Mine Games: Securing America’s Critical Mineral Supply
![Cover art for Mine Games Paper](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-01/Mine%20Games%20thumbnail.jpg?h=49c981ba&itok=SZTSkTGk)
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
![Image of two ancient ships floating through a galaxy.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-12/FY23_12662_CSPS_Sea-to-Space_Cover-Thumbnail.jpg?h=7e507adb&itok=BLDddCAv)
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
![Pack It In, Pack It Out cover image](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-09/FY23_11778_CSPS_Pack-It-In-Pack-It-Out_Thumbnail.jpg?h=49c981ba&itok=WOBn-UMQ)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/pack-it-pack-it-out-updating-policy-and-standards-cislunar-sustainability
Game Changer: The Great Convergence and the Future of Satellite-Enabled Direct-to-Device
![Game-changer-thumbnail.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-07/Game-changer-thumbnail.jpg?h=30af9814&itok=01uj6VsU)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/game-changer-great-convergence-and-future-satellite-enabled-direct-device
South Korea Country Brief
![Country Brief header with text "Country Brief"](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-02/Country-Brief-Paper_Thumbnail_RD1.jpg?h=7e507adb&itok=tWdu2NNH)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/south-korea-country-brief
Striking A Balance Between Safety and Scrubs
![CSPS Cover Photo of Launch Site](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-07/CSPS_COVER_RANGE_IN_A_BOX_FINAL_THUMBNAIL.jpg?h=b9fd117d&itok=QZxaWo0W)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/striking-balance-between-safety-and-scrubs
STAR: Shining Light on Space Supply Chain Risk
![CSPS Cover Photo of Global Supply Chain Map](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-07/FY23_11776_CSPS_Charting-A-Course_Thumbnail.jpg?h=49c981ba&itok=7JkrM9H1)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/star-shining-light-space-supply-chain-risk
Project North Star: Strategic Foresight for U.S. Grand Strategy
![Project North Star Cover Image](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-07/AK23_126_Northstar_Thumbnail.jpg?h=8abcec71&itok=iRSU7mvC)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/project-north-star-strategic-foresight-us-grand-strategy
Issue Brief: New Priorities and Long-Term Developments Toward a New Architecture
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https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/issue-brief-new-priorities-and-long-term-developments-toward-new-architecture
The Green Circularity: Life Cycle Assessments for the Space Industry
![Graphic for Green Circularity CSPS Paper](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-04/Sustainable%20Cycle_Thumbnail.jpg?h=b9fd117d&itok=Nb_d6gfF)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/green-circularity-life-cycle-assessments-space-industry
Singapore: Country Brief
![Country Brief header with text "Country Brief"](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-02/Country-Brief-Paper_Thumbnail_RD1.jpg?h=7e507adb&itok=tWdu2NNH)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/singapore-country-brief
Enabling a New Space Paradigm: Harnessing Space Mobility and Logistics
![CSPS Cover Photo for of Satellites and Earth](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-01/CSPS%20Cover_Enabling%20a%20New%20Space%20Paradigm%20%2811049%29_THUMBNAIL.jpg?h=06ac0d8c&itok=wz93qwmn)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/enabling-new-space-paradigm-harnessing-space-mobility-and-logistics
Space Traffic Management Terminology
![Space traffic management (STM) is a topic of much international discussion in the aerospace community.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-10/FY22_11258_CSPS_SpaceTrafficMangeTerm_paper-cover_Thumbnail.jpg?h=b9fd117d&itok=hdXp0Zar)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/space-traffic-management-terminology
Issue Brief: Fiscal Year 2023 Space Force Budget Analysis: Missile Warning and Tracking Looms Large
![Budget Brief Thumbnail](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2024-06/FY24_13295_CSPS_Budget-Brief-Identity-2024_Thumbnail_F.jpg?h=7e507adb&itok=eVKIHsIC)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/issue-brief-fiscal-year-2023-space-force-budget-analysis-missile-warning-and-tracking-looms
Policy Compliance Roadmap for Small Satellites
![PolicyCompSmallSat Thumbnail.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-09/PolicyCompSmallSat%20Thumbnail.jpg?h=b9fd117d&itok=7NWf1VFQ)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/policy-compliance-roadmap-small-satellites
Commercial Normentum: Space Security Challenges, Commercial Actors, and Norms of Behavior
![FY22_11421_CSPS_Commercial-Normentum_Cover_Thumbnail.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-08/FY22_11421_CSPS_Commercial-Normentum_Cover_Thumbnail.jpg?h=0f565c51&itok=CyftOlxM)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/commercial-normentum-space-security-challenges-commercial-actors-and-norms-behavior
Game Changer: In-Space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing for the New Space Economy
![Game-changer-thumbnail.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-07/Game-changer-thumbnail.jpg?h=30af9814&itok=01uj6VsU)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/game-changer-space-servicing-assembly-and-manufacturing-new-space-economy
Charting a Course Through Cislunar Master Planning
![Cislunar-Master-Planning_Cover_F_Thumbnail.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-06/Cislunar-Master-Planning_Cover_F_Thumbnail.jpg?h=49c981ba&itok=LBc5mNf5)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/charting-course-through-cislunar-master-planning
Implications of a Growing Spaceflight Industry: Climate Change
![Spaceflight Climate Change Thumbnail.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-06/Spaceflight%20Climate%20Change%20Thumbnail.jpg?h=06ac0d8c&itok=Ar8JRxcL)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/implications-growing-spaceflight-industry-climate-change
No Haven for Misbehavin': A Framework for Verifying Space Norms
![Norms of behavior Thumbnail.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2022-03/Norms%20of%20behavior%20Thumbnail.jpg?h=06ac0d8c&itok=EUSBGeXF)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/no-haven-misbehavin-framework-verifying-space-norms
Assessing Commercial Solutions for Government Space Missions
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https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/assessing-commercial-solutions-government-space-missions
Global Communications Infrastructure: Undersea and Beyond
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https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/global-communications-infrastructure-undersea-and-beyond
Leveraging Digital Engineering for Space Guardians and Space Explorers
![Birk-Buckley-Dickey_Space-Warfighting_cover_thumbnail.jpg](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-12/Birk-Buckley-Dickey_Space-Warfighting_cover_thumbnail.jpg?h=b9fd117d&itok=IxK6spV6)
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
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https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/avoiding-costly-delays-human-space-exploration-historical-perspectives-nasa-programs
Strategic Foresight for the Space Enterprise
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https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/strategic-foresight-space-enterprise
Designing for Principles: Implementation Steps for the United States Space Force
![Design Principles](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2021-10/Design%204%20Principles2%20thumbnail.jpeg?h=58a2d00a&itok=l2g1IF5K)
https://csps.aerospace.org/papers/designing-principles-implementation-steps-united-states-space-force