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Fox13 Salt Lake City in Utah featured the Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration (OCSD) mission and Aerospace‘s work with Launch-U on their coverage of Small Satellite Conference at Utah…

Utah Public Radio interviewed Aerospace‘s Jamie Morin, executive director of the Center for Space Policy and Strategy and senior project engineer, Carrie O‘Quinn about Launch-U Standards.

Geekwire reports on Aerospace’s proposed size and weight standard for medium-class (25-200 kilogram) smallsats called the “Launch Unit” which would fill a volume of 45x45x60 centimeters (1.5x1.5x2…

Carrie O’Quinn speaks about her presentation Providing Maximum Launchability – A Guide to Defined Smallsat Classification, the precursor to the Launch-U standard, at the Space Tech Conference 2018.

Deadly hypersonic debris may spell doom for existing satellites and the thousands more to come as low earth orbit is commercialized.

A recent white paper, “Navigating the Policy Compliance Roadmap for Small Satellites,” discusses the applicability of existing policy, and outlines a process for missions to follow to ensure…

Aerospace considers the effects of rocket emissions on the stratosphere—what is known and what is not.

The United States will reap the rewards of a stronger and more resilient space enterprise by teaming up with international allies and partners in space.

Do we “Go Big,” as is the philosophy embraced by Air Force leaders, or do we take the more cautious approach preferred by skeptical lawmakers? Herein lies the tension.

An opportunistic navigation sensor technology developed and tested by Aerospace engineers is featured in a Los Angeles Times article on protecting GPS navigation systems

The United States needs a missile-tracking sensor layer in space, but this crucial part of missile defense suffers from an uncertain budget profile, and movement forward has stalled. The Pentagon…

Aerospace and MITRE policy leaders discuss challenges to the nation’s space enterprise, upgrading Cold War-era architectures, harnessing commercial innovation, and balancing speed and efficacy while…

The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy has created a new Senior Advisory Council to serve as strategic advisers and review individual projects.

In this article for Wired, James Vedda, discusses government regulations that restrict the ability of commercial space systems to capture high-resolution imagery of Earth.  

This Space News article discusses how the U.S. government relies on the vital RF spectrum—L-Band—to keep the nation functioning and how commercial demand for shared space in this much-coveted…

Achieving cost reduction in U.S. space policy would require that we implement and balance two seemingly contradictory approaches in the international playing field: cooperation, where there is…