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Salmon Swimming Upstream: Charting a Course in Cislunar Space

There is a lot of promise—and hype—around the future of humankind in cislunar space, roughly the area between geosynchronous Earth orbit and the Moon. But there are also hard realities. Operating in cislunar space presents new technical and policy challenges that the United States and its allies will want to consider. Over the last several years,…

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Gold Rush: The 2024 Commercial Remote Sensing Global Rankings

Four leading institutions—the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Taylor Geospatial Institute, Taylor Geospatial Engine, and the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation—collaborated to produce a “Top 3” ranking of the world’s best commercial space-based remote sensing systems.  The results should spur policy conversations about the importance of U.S. leadership, the state of global competition (especially…

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From Earth to Uchū: The Evolution of Japan’s Space Security Policy and a Blueprint for Strengthening the U.S.-Japan Space Security Partnership

As Japan reckons with an increasingly tense security dynamic driven by growing Chinese and North Korean military activity and defense budgets, space capabilities are becoming integral to Japan’s national security. The U.S.-Japan security alliance continues to be at the core of both countries’ approaches to security and stability in the Indo-Pacific, with both seeking to…

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From Earth to Uchū (Japanese translation) 地球から宇宙へ 日本の宇宙安全保障政策の変遷と日米宇宙安全保障の連携強化のための青写真

このレポートは、山本貴明氏の追加サポートを受けて、Google 翻訳を使用して翻訳されました。英語の原文はここからご覧いただけます。 This report has been translated using Google Translate, with additional support from Takaaki Yamamoto. This translation is current as of January 2025. The original English publication can be found here.

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Why Hasn’t Starliner Returned?

On June 5, 2024, an Atlas V rocket launched Boeing’s Starliner on its first crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Though it successfully docked with the station, Starliner exhibited anomalies related to its propulsion systems, raising concerns about whether the spacecraft could safely return astronauts to Earth. At the time of writing, NASA…

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Why Did China and Russia Stage a Joint Bomber Exercise near Alaska?

On July 24, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) intercepted two Chinese Xian H-6K bombers and two Russian Tu-95MS Bear bombers flying near Alaska. Both types of bombers are nuclear capable. The bombers were intercepted by American F-16s and F-35s and Canadian CF-18 fighter jets. While the aircraft remained in international airspace and did not fly into Canadian…

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What Can We Learn from Ariane for Future Space Partnerships?

Europe’s new space launcher, Ariane 6, the product of work across 13 European nations, is expected to make its inaugural flight on July 9. The rocket’s pedigree stretches back about fifty years to the start of the Ariane project to develop an all-European launch system. Though critics charged that the Ariane project was unnecessary and expensive, it produced…

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Is There a Path to Counter Russia’s Space Weapons?

Why would Russia, the first nation to put a satellite and human into orbit, want to develop space weapons that could make parts of space unusable for up to a year? At first glance, it may be difficult to decipher Russian motivations. In 1939, British prime minister Winston Churchill famously observed that Russian decisionmaking was…

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Pedal to the Metal: Accelerating Pentagon Integration of Commercial Space

The Department of Defense (DOD) recently released two documents describing a new approach to tapping into private sector space capabilities—the DOD Commercial Space Integration Strategy, issued by the secretary of defense, and the U.S. Space Force Commercial Space Strategy, issued jointly by the chief of space operations and the assistant secretary of the Air Force for space…

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2024 Priorities for the Intelligence Community

Kari Bingen spoke on a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence panel about the acute security challenges facing the United States, the technology trends occurring around us, and the significant changes underway to posture the intelligence community (IC) for the competitive and contested environment we face. Chairman Turner, Ranking Member Himes, and distinguished Members of…

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