Center for Space Policy and Strategy Events Archive

How can identifying distinct schools of thought in space allow us to better understand the choices being made today about how to organize and fund space for national security?

Citizen participation in space is now enabled by commercial picosatellite do-it-yourself kits, and associated services and expertise to customize their missions and place payloads into orbit. What's being done with these satellites, and what opportunities and concerns do they pose? 

Join The George Washington University Space Policy Institute and The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy & Strategy for discussions on the issues underlying today’s debates about how to reorganize national security space.

How might agility and the notion of satellites as a commodity be injected in government space production and launch? Join us at Space Florida's and OneWeb's facilities near Cape Canaveral, Florida, for a first-hand experience of production agility followed by keynotes and panel discussions with leaders in the space enterprise who are confronting these choices.  

Unfettered access and freedom to operate in space is of vital interest to the United States. Foreign proliferation of advanced space systems has left space operations congested and contested, and U.S. adversaries are quickly developing ever more lethal anti-satellite capabilities. How can we transform our national security space enterprise to continuously outpace the adversary threat?

This event, featuring Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson and other defense and congressional leaders, will focus on the need for urgent change in defense space, lessons learned for new models of defense space acquisition, and how better acquisition might meet new space systems and on-the-ground special operations needs.

Unfettered access and freedom to operate in space is of vital interest to the United States. This forum will explore a new model for an accelerated pace for satellite constellation refresh added capability to address the evolving threats and shift in the government enterprise technical baseline, acquisition approaches, and requirements management to create an agile architecture that continuously outpaces the adversary threat.

Unfettered access and freedom to operate in space is of vital interest to the United States. This forum will explore a new model for an accelerated pace for satellite constellation refresh added capability to address the evolving threats and shift in the government enterprise technical baseline, acquisition approaches, and requirements management to create an agile architecture that continuously outpaces the adversary threat.

Our society is becoming ever more dependent on space — and that dependence comes with the risk of disruption and interference from adversaries, allies, and nature itself. Join the Center for Space Policy and Strategy for panel discussions on the challenges posed by spectrum interference and space weather disruption, and what might be done to overcome those challenges.

Commercial remote sensing is in a time of significant change. Join the Center for Space Policy and Strategy to discuss commercial remote sensing, regulatory change, and new roles and responsibilities for the Department of Commerce.

Space is critical to fostering security across the globe — how can space-faring nations balance their own security priorities with those of their neighbors in orbit? Join The George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute and The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy for panel discussions on using outer space to create a more secure future on Earth.

In this new space era, commercial space companies are bringing new and innovative ideas to the space community. Their unique startup culture has also brought immense enthusiasm, rapid innovation, and more cost-effective solutions to access space. The U.S. Government intends to leverage the success of commercial space to maintain the domestic leadership role in space capabilities.

In an environment of constantly shifting geopolitical relationships and economic conditions, where the drivers, threats, and potential long-term benefits of space activities are evolving, the US government must decide how to apply limited resources across various space investments - and their non-space substitutes. This discussion will inform decision-makers on how the US may develop national space policy to address the dynamic space environment.

What is the state of orbital debris today — is it an even bigger threat than imagined? Is the U.S. on the right path for monitoring and managing orbital objects? How do the U.S. and other countries collaborate to manage this issue and related challenges in this new space age?

The Aerospace Corporation and the George Washington University Space Policy Institute held a half-day symposium reviewing Challenges to Leading in a World with More Near-Peers in Space. Building Consensus and Managing Conflict: Structuring U.S. Space Execution and Oversight to Ensure Leadership was also discussed.

A panel discussion on major challenges and opportunities in the space policy domain was held, introducing the Center for Space Policy and Strategy to key federal policymakers and military leaders. Topics ranged from expansion of public-private partnerships to the prospects for a new National Space Council at the White House.