Oct21 The U.S. Enduring Human Presence in Orbit: Reflecting on the Future and Past 25 Years For 25 years, since the first crew arrived at the International Space Station on November 2, 2000, the United States has had astronauts in low Earth orbit. Please join the CSIS Aerospace Security Project on Tuesday, October 21, at 4:00 p.m. for a conversation about this milestone and future of U.S. crewed activities in low Earth orbit. […]
View What Will International Partnerships Look Like Post-International Space Station? By Annalise Johnson PublishedOctober 6, 2025 “Tonight, I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station and to do it within a…
Sep26 Rocket Dreams: Inside the New Space Race with Christian Davenport and former National Space Council Leaders The event will discuss the rivalries and alliances shaping the New Space Age, including lunar exploration, private sector innovation, and the strategic implications of international competition.
Jun23 Space Force International Partnership Strategy: A Fireside Chat with Air Marshal Paul Godfrey Please join the CSIS Aerospace Security Project on Monday, June 23, 2025 at 10:00am EDT for a virtual fireside conversation with Air Marshal Paul Godfrey, Assistant Chief of Space Operations for Future Concepts and Partnerships, as he unveils the U.S. Space Force International Partnership Strategy. The conversation will be moderated by Sarah Mineiro, Senior Associate (non-resident) with the Aerospace Security Project. […]
View Featured Space Threat Assessment 2025 By Clayton Swope, Kari A. Bingen, Makena Young, Kendra LaFave PublishedApril 25, 2025 Welcome to the 2025 Space Threat Assessment by the Aerospace Security Project. This resource for policymakers and the public leverages open-source information to assess key developments in foreign counterspace weapons. Drawing on eight years of collected data and analyses, this report describes trends in the development, testing, and use of counterspace weapons and enables readers…
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.
View 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 […]
