View Featured Space Threat Assessment 2019 By Todd Harrison, Kaitlyn Johnson, Thomas G. Roberts, Alexandra Coultrup, Madison Bergethon PublishedApril 4, 2019 An interactive summary of Space Threat Assessment 2019, a featured report from the CSIS Aerospace Security Project.
View What Does the Trump Administration’s New Memorandum Mean for Nuclear-Powered Space Missions? By Kaitlyn Johnson, Court Manske PublishedAugust 28, 2019 In late August 2019, the Trump administration released a new presidential memorandum updating safety procedures for spacecraft launched with nuclear components. In this piece, the Aerospace Security Project answers questions about nuclear spacecraft and this legal change.
View The Risks a War in Space Poses for Nuclear Stability on Earth By Todd Harrison PublishedJuly 30, 2019 A fresh perspective on the vulnerability of U.S. space assets and their role in nuclear deterrence in an increasingly crowded and contested domain.
View To the Moon in Five Years: Understanding NASA’s Artemis Program By Court Manske PublishedJuly 23, 2019 In March 2019, Vice President Mike Pence announced that the United States plans to send the first woman and the next man to the lunar surface by the end of 2024. What are the next steps for returning American astronauts to the Moon?
View Space Force or Space Corps? Competing Visions for a New Military Service By Kaitlyn Johnson PublishedJune 27, 2019 Is there going to be a new military service for space? This CSIS Brief provides a side-by-side comparison of legislative proposals for the Space Force from the House and Senate Armed Services Committees and the Department of Defense.
View Video: China in Space—A Strategic Competition? By Todd Harrison PublishedApril 26, 2019 Todd Harrison discusses his testimony on China’s civil and national security space programs before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on April 25, 2019.
View Congressional Testimony: China in Space By Todd Harrison PublishedApril 25, 2019 Read Todd Harrison’s full testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on “China in Space: A Strategic Competition.”
View Commanding Space: The Story Behind the Space Force PublishedApril 11, 2019 This featured documentary from the CSIS Aerospace Security Project and iDeas Lab highlights the history of space reorganization and showcases several perspectives of the Trump administration’s Space Force proposal.
View Deaf, Dumb, Blind, and Impotent in Space By Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) PublishedApril 4, 2019 The risk of a space Pearl Harbor is growing every day. Yet this war would not last for years. Rather, it would be over the day it started. This commentary is the foreword of the CSIS Aerospace Security Project report entitled Space Threat Assessment, 2019.
View Report: Space Threat Assessment 2019 By Todd Harrison, Kaitlyn Johnson, Thomas G. Roberts, Madison Bergethon, Alexandra Coultrup PublishedApril 4, 2019 Download a PDF of Space Threat Assessment 2019 a new featured report from the CSIS Aerospace Security Project. Space Threat Assessment 2019 reviews the open-source information available on the counterspace capabilities that can threaten U.S. space systems.
