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The team of Abigail Thomas & Yuqian Wang advanced to the Quarter-finals of the Manfred Lachs Space Law North American Regional Moot Court held at Georgetown Law.  The team was coached by SPI Professor Henry Hertzfeld, who noted, "[A]ll of the judges comments both right after the match and in the informal setting of the awards dinner were very complimentary about our arguments. ... Abby and Yuqian did extremely well and improved with each round."
More information on this competition can be found at:
https://www.spacecourtfoundation.org/lachsmoot/

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SPI Professor Aaron Bateman's article titled "Information Security in the Space Age: Britain’s Skynet Satellite Communications Program and the Evolution of Modern Command and Control Networks" has been selected for the 2024 Amos Perlmutter Prize.

The article was published in the Journal of Strategic Studies. The Amos Perlmutter Prize is awarded once a year to the top paper published in the Journal of Strategic Studies by a junior faculty member.

You can read more about the award here.

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SPI Director Dr. Scott Pace was invited as a speaker on March 4th to The 9th National Space Policy Secretariat Symposium on Ensuring the Safe and Sustainable Use of Outer Space. Dr. Pace presented his expertise during the last session of the program, to discuss how can we leverage international collaboration and partnerships with industry to create a virtuous cycle.

You can follow the entire event below.

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SPI Alumnus Josh Ingersoll has been appointed to the UN's first Youth Advisory Board on Technology Policy (Through the ITU). Twelve board members globally under 30 years old will serve a 2-year term advising ITU Sec-Gen Doreen Bogdan-Martin on a variety of Tech Policy issues including using Satellite Telecommunication to bridge the digital divide. Josh is one of two members representing the Americas.

Full ITU Press Release

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SPI Director Dr. Scott Pace was invited by the FCC to offer his insights as part of a distinguished pannel of experts on February 29th. The special event was organized by FCC's Space Bureau and titled ‘20 Years of Orbital Debris Mitigation’ Open House.

Please find the full discussion available below.

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SPI Director Dr. Scott Pace was quoted in a recent New York Times article titled "Kam Ghaffarian’s Moonshots". The article presents the story of the man behind Intuitive Machines, the American private company which recently succeded a lunar landing.

“Flying foreign astronauts on commercial missions is just a new facet of U.S. leadership in space.”

Dr. Scott Pace

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SPI Director, Dr. Scott Pace, was quoted in Phys.Org in an article about the US private space sector.

The article “Apollo to Artemis: Why America is betting big on private space” examines the Moon-to-Mars program and the contribution of private space companies such as SpaceX and Intuitive Machines. The authors also frame America's public-private paradigm in the context of international competition.

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In February 2024, Prof. Aaron Bateman visited Tokyo to give a series of talks at the U.S. embassy and the Japanese Ministry of Defense on the lessons of the Cold War for competition in space today. The photo below showcases his presentation at the U.S. embassy in Tokyo to a large group of Tokyo-based defense attachés.

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Bruno Martini, SPI visiting scholar, published a paper titled "Counterspace Weapons: Strategic Implications for Emerging Spacepower Nations" in the Journal of the Americas.

The article tackles the challenges and opportunities of nations possessing small satellite fleets in the context of an increased number of potential threats to space assets. Destructive ASAT weapons tests have raised the stakes for emerging spacepower nations, who now have to reconsider their resiliency to foreign counterspace capabilities.

The full paper is available here.

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Rachita Puri and Ryan Puleo received ISTP fellowship awards for the 2023-2024 academic year. SPI congratulates each of the awardees, and thanks GPS Innovation Alliance for their generous support.

Rachita Puri is an Aerospace Engineer at the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation in Washington D.C. In her role at AST, she leads the safety authorization for U.S. commercial space operations.

Ryan Puleo currently works as an analyst at BryceTech and his work concentrates on financial and economic analysis. Ryan has worked on BryceTech’s annual Start-up Space report for the past three years.

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