Dec17 Celebrating the U.S. Space Force and Charting its Future December 20, 2024, marks the 5th anniversary of the establishment of the U.S. Space Force – the first military service created in 72 years. This event is a time to celebrate the Space Force and its Guardians, reflect on how the service came about, and discuss where it goes from here.
Why Did South Korea Create a New Space Agency? By Jacob Bradley PublishedNovember 8, 2024 On May 27, 2024, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced the creation of the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA), which replaced the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) as the lead government organization for Korea’s space program and research activities.[i] KASA was created to reorganize disparate Korean agencies to foster greater efficiency and space innovation. Under…
View Salmon Swimming Upstream: Charting a Course in Cislunar Space By Clayton Swope, Louis Gleason PublishedOctober 21, 2024 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,…
View Gold Rush: The 2024 Commercial Remote Sensing Global Rankings By Kari A. Bingen, David Gauthier, Madeleine Chang PublishedOctober 1, 2024 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…
Jun20 Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy: A Conversation with HPSCI Chairman Mike Turner Please join the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) and the Aerospace Security Project (ASP) on Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 11:00am ET for a fireside chat with Congressman Michael Turner (R-OH), Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), senior member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) and Head of […]
View From Earth to Uchū: The Evolution of Japan’s Space Security Policy and a Blueprint for Strengthening the U.S.-Japan Space Security Partnership By Kari A. Bingen, Makena Young PublishedAugust 23, 2024 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…
View 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 By Kari A. Bingen, Makena Young PublishedAugust 23, 2024 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.
View Why Hasn’t Starliner Returned? By Clayton Swope PublishedAugust 19, 2024 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…
View Is There a Path to Counter Russia’s Space Weapons? By Clayton Swope, Makena Young PublishedJune 28, 2024 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…
View Pedal to the Metal: Accelerating Pentagon Integration of Commercial Space By Audrey M. Schaffer PublishedMay 17, 2024 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…
