The space enterprise is a complex environment with numerous stakeholders, areas of concern, and interlocking and overlapping interests that can impact operations and safety. Actions in any one area of this complex domain can and does directly impact other areas. This requires us to work together to build a holistic space safety approach compatible with the new space age. 

The Aerospace Corporation’s (Aerospace’s) Space Safety Institute (SSI) leverages the corporation’s long-standing expertise on issues of space safety to provide more targeted and impactful thought leadership across the range of challenges described in this 2024 Space Safety Compendium, which aims to illuminate this state of play for readers—particularly nonspace professional policymakers and new space entrants. We believe that safety must be approached holistically and that we must always consider the broader implications of individual actions and policies.

The compendium has been developed in collaboration with The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy, and builds on material from previously published policy papers, referenced throughout each chapter, as a foundation for this compendium. 

Aerospace's experts discussed the 2022 Space Safety Compendium on The Space Policy Show. Watch the full episode here.