Category: Authored Articles and Conference Papers

First year graduate student Cody Knipfer was published in The Space Review. His submission, “America’s future in LEO? The possibilities and challenges facing commercial space stations (part 1)” provides a detailed analysis of the future of ISS, specifically regarding research, commercial applications, and eventual replacement options.

SPI Director Scott Pace co-authored “Navigating in Space – Taking GNSS to New Heights”, a study of Global Navigation Satellite Systems published in Inside GNSS.

Space Policy Institute Director Dr. Scott Pace’s op-ed, “How Trump Should Restart U.S. Space Momentum” was published in Aviation Week.

Visiting Scholar Tomas Hrozensky was published in Dennik N, a daily Slovakian political publication. His article, “Ideme na Mars! Netreba sa ponáhľať” (English Translation: “We are going to Mars! No Need to Rush) comments on the protocol that should be followed for a public-private Mars mission.

SPI Director Scott Pace’s “Space Cooperation Among Order-Building Powers” was published in The National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office Technical Bulletin – October 2016 Volume 11.

Faculty member Pascale Ehrenfreund, as part of the science team of the Micro-Imaging Dust Analysis System (MIDAS) instrument on board the Rosetta comet rendezvous mission, published the first detailed 3D images of original cometary dust grains from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on September 1, 2016 in the journal Nature.

Dr. Pascale Ehrenfreund’s co-authored work, “Aggregate dust particles at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko” was published in Nature and examines measurements of interplanetary dust particles.

Research professor Henry Hertzfeld’s “Le secteur privé: quel rôle dans la conquête spatiale de demain?” was published in Les Grands Dossiers De Diplomatie No. 34 Geopolitique De L’Espace. The article, translated for the French publication, examines the role of the private sector in the space race of tomorrow.

Dr. Scott Pace wrote a piece on the future of space commercialization and regulation that was published by Foreign Affairs.

SPI Director Scott Pace authored “Regulating Outer Space”, a study of the regulatory architecture that affects past, present, and future commercial space activities, which was published in the Foreign Affairs Magazine.