Paper Standards Tailoring Code of Conduct The tailoring of compliance documents in the acquisition of space systems is often controversial and drawn-out. Traditional approaches to standards tailoring rely on customer and contractor subject… December 2023
Paper Mission Assurance Guidelines for Mission Risk Classes and Do No Harm (DNH) for Space Vehicles This document is a team product from the 2023 Mission Success Improvement Workshop (MSIW) program. The goal of the team, which consisted of government and industry partners, was to develop guidelines… December 2023
Paper Acquisition Considerations to Expand Space Design Options Using Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) EEE Parts and Units This Aerospace technical report (ATR) is intended for reference when a customer is considering the use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) electrical, electronic, and electromechanical (EEE)… December 2023
Paper Space Acquisition Decision Making This infographic discusses why it is challenging to make good decisions in the space acquisition process, due to both the built-in processes specific to national security space as well as general… October 2023
Paper Expanding Space Design Options Using COTS The usage of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) components can provide impactful benefits to space programs. Space programs can benefit by accessing the latest performance technology and shorten… September 2023
Paper Best Practices for Generating Space Environment Specifications with Modern Tools This report aims to describe the current generation of tools and methods and provide several worked examples to produce a preliminary space environmental specification for the acquisition of a… August 2023
Paper Space Traffic Management Terminology In this CSPS paper, we summarize the significance of effective STM, present the causes of the variance in terminology, and highlight the challenges to reaching consensus. October 2022
Paper Policy Compliance Roadmap for Small Satellites This CSPS paper explores U.S. space policies and how they apply to satellite missions that may not fit the “typical” mold on launch missions that may not have a single responsible agency. Where… September 2022
Paper Cybersecurity Protections for Spacecraft: A Threat Based Approach This analysis describes the background of space system cybersecurity and the state of existing standards, the concepts of defense-in-depth protection necessary to protect spacecraft, and then a… July 2022
Paper The Aerospace Corporation’s AeroCube Program The Aerospace Corporation (Aerospace) has been at the forefront of CubeSat technology and the miniaturization of satellites since before the CubeSat standard existed. Aerospace flew the world's… August 2021
Paper The In-Space Rescue Capability Gap This CSPS paper seeks to raise awareness of the need to revisit space rescue policies and close capability gaps. July 2021
Paper Human Spaceflight Safety: Regulatory Issues and Mitigating Concepts This CSPS paper explores ways to address the issues associated with the rise of commercial human spaceflight. November 2020
Paper ESTABLISHING SPACE CYBERSECURITY POLICY, STANDARDS, AND RISK MANAGEMENT PRACTICES Our future space systems must be secured and cyber resilient. Using threat-informed risk-based system engineering and applying defense-in-depth throughout space systems, particularly on the… October 2020
Paper Continuous Production Agility (CPA): Future Proofing the National Security Space Enterprise Keeping pace with the rapid technological change that’s reshaping space will require new approaches and new ways of thinking to help the U.S. maintain it’s leading position. Finding ways to regularly… September 2020
Paper Coming to GRIPS with Science When designing a space science mission, there is always a tradeoff between observation and cost, in which one would like to collect as many samples as possible in order to bound the problem in spite… December 2018
Paper The Application Usability Framework Heliophysics research, like many research areas, has increasingly evolved to include more than just pure science inquiries. Opportunities for interdisciplinary research and transitioning… December 2018
