View The Need for Innovation and Continuity in National Security Space during the Biden Administration By Makena Young PublishedFebruary 10, 2021 National security space policy is at an inflection point. President Biden’s administration has a number of new avenues for progress, but should also continue key Trump-era initiatives.
View Challenges and Opportunities of Nigeria’s Space Program By Tyler Way PublishedJune 24, 2020 Commentary on Nigeria’s civil space program and its current operations.
View The Myth of “ITAR-Free” By John Hoffner PublishedMay 15, 2020 This paper explores the emergence of ITAR-free satellites in the early 2000’s and evaluates the impacts of ITAR regulations on American satellite manufacturers.
View A Foreword to Space Threat Assessment 2020 By Marty Faga PublishedMarch 29, 2020 An exclusive foreword by Marty Faga, former director of the National Reconnaissance Office and longtime advocate for space security.
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 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 Is the White House Planning to Hold the Space Station Hostage? By G. Ryan Faith PublishedMarch 1, 2019 What does the future hold for the International Space Station? Space policy consultant G. Ryan Faith argues that the executive and legislative branches must work together to ensure a successful transition after the Station is retired.
View Bad Idea: Conflating the Space Force with NASA By Kaitlyn Johnson PublishedDecember 21, 2018 As the administration moves forward with establishing a new military service focused on space, leaders should keep their language clear and use this opportunity to educate the public about both civil and national security space.
View So What’s the Big Deal About Mars InSight? By Sean O'Keefe PublishedDecember 3, 2018 Why go to Mars? The InSight vehicle is designed to examine the Mars interior—its core and crust—to learn how the planetary formations may have been different from ours and look for evidence of seismic or other events that may explain its hellish reality today.
View A Space Force is Worth the Price By Todd Harrison PublishedNovember 27, 2018 We should not wait for a Pearl Harbor in space to realize we need to reorganize and elevate space as a co-equal branch of the military. Just as the Air Force was worth the disruption and additional costs more than 70 years ago, a Space Force is worth the price today.