Alumna Sirisha Bandla Discusses Future of Space Travel: https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/alumna-sirisha-bandla-discusses-future-space-travel
Category: News
Forbes article by Diane
Forbes article by Diane Furchtgott-Roth for issues on transportation and 5G.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dianafurchtgott-roth/2022/01/24/buyers-beware-ligado-spectrum/?sh=7de3a20b2737
Washington Post quotes SPI Director Scott Pace
Dr. Pace quoted in Washington Post article: “Tensions with Russia are now spilling into space, complicating International Space Station partnership.”
Don’t wait for a disaster: Industry-led space traffic management
-SPI’s Benjamin Staats has op-ed, Don’t wait for a disaster: Industry-led space traffic management, published by Space News. It can be found here: https://spacenews.com/op-ed-dont-wait-for-a-disaster-industry-led-space-traffic-management/
Dr. Scolese Facebook post
From the NRO Facebook page, “Director Scolese was honored to be part of the Space Policy Institute guest speaker series at the historic DACOR Bacon House last night. It was nice to engage with a cross-section of the Washington space policy community in such a beautiful setting.”
The post and photo can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=197498239235208&set=a.164921892492843
Panel Discussion featuring SPI Director Scott Pace: Ruling Space: Governance, Security, and Commerce as part of Network 20/20 Virtual Briefing Series
Panel Discussion featuring SPI Director Scott Pace: Ruling Space: Governance, Security, and Commerce as part of Network 20/20 Virtual Briefing Series
You can find this description of the event by Network 20/20 on their website. “In today’s rapidly advancing world, there are now 72 countries with space programs and dozens of major players in the private sector. A new space race is looming, teeming with emerging players eager to take part in a new phase of outer space competition and cooperation. As we transition from the age of discovery to that of security and commerce, what actions must the United States and its allies and partners take to safeguard the future of this global commons? What legal frameworks, investments, and new partnerships must be made or changed to enhance a rules-based international order in outer space? Join us on Monday, November 8th at 12:00 p.m. EDT to explore these questions with our distinguished speakers, Dr. Jessica West, Senior Researcher at the Canadian peace research institute Project Ploughshares; Dr. Scott Pace, Director of the Space Policy Institute and Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and Therese Jones, Senior Director of Policy at the Satellite Industry Association.”
You can watch the webinar at these links.
https://network2020.org/event/november-8/
SPI Director, Dr. Scott Pace, cited in README article “Space hacking risks pose cyber policy test for Biden admin”
SPI Director, Dr. Pace, was cited by Shaun Waterman on README in the news article titled “Space hacking risks pose cyber policy test for Biden admin”
Sacknoff Call for Papers
Call for Student Papers
2021 Sacknoff Prize for Space History
$500 Cash Prize
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A Publishing & Presentation Opportunity
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A Publishing & Presentation Opportunity
Please encourage your students, interns, and/or volunteers to submit a paper for the 2021 Sacknoff Prize for Space History and share our flyer with them. The deadline is 29 November 2021. This is a great opportunity to brush up a class paper or repurpose a thesis chapter!
About the Prize
Awarded since 2011, the Sacknoff Prize for Space History is designed to encourage original research by university students—undergraduate or graduate—in the field of space history.
The prize is open to all students and is not limited to those at United States institutions. (Papers written by a team of students are also accepted.) Students must be enrolled at an educational institution at the time of submission and working toward a degree: undergraduate, graduate, or military. Papers already published or scheduled for publication in another journal will NOT be accepted.
In addition to the $500 cash prize, the winning paper will be published in the peer-reviewed history journal, Quest: The History of Spaceflight Quarterly and will be given the opportunity to present their paper at the Society for the History of Technology annual meeting to the Albatross Special Interest Group on aerospace.
Possible Topics
Although works must be historical in character, they can draw on other disciplines—such as culture studies, literature, communications, economics, engineering, and science. Possible historical subjects include, but are not limited to:
- Historical aspects of space institutions and their leaders
- International efforts and programs
- Space technology development
- Human flight and robotic exploration programs
- Regulation of space businesses
- Politics and policies impacting space activities from a historical perspective
- Financial and economic aspects of the space industry
- The social effects of spaceflight
- The space environment
- Space system design, engineering, and safety
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Dr. Scott Pace: America’s Space Agenda – Seeking to Expand our Civilization and Ensure Space will be a Home of Free People
SPI Director Scott Pace is featured in a new podcast interview: “Dr. Scott Pace: America’s Space Agenda – Seeking to Expand our Civilization and Ensure Space will be a Home of Free People.” In this episode, Senior Fellow in Defense Studies Peter Garretson interviews Dr. Scott Pace, Director of the Space Policy Institute at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and former Deputy Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary of the National Space Council from 2017-2020. They discuss the criticality of broad and bipartisan consensus to sustainable space exploration and development. Next, follows a discussion on exploration policy, space as a warfighting domain, China, spacepower theory (Dolman’s Astropolitics vs Bowen’s Continental Seapower), arms control, the record of the National Space Council’s space policy directives, their rational and significance. The speakers cover the possible futures in space depending on whether we can live off the land and pay our own way leading to different analogies: settlements, ‘Everest’, ‘McMurdo’, and deep sea drilling platforms. They provide details about space property rights, development and industrialization, asteroid defense and how it is getting worked into the missions of the agencies such as NASA and DoD. Finally, they discuss opportunities available to the new administration and space council and define a space agenda worthy of our nation and its values. Listen here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/space-strategy/id1559865448?i=1000539066865
Celine Der Boghosian and Abigail Johnson, first-year graduate students in the GW Space Policy Institute, have received the Axiom Space Fellowship Award
Celine Der Boghosian and Abigail Johnson, first-year graduate students in the GW Space Policy Institute, have received the Axiom Space Fellowship Award. Check out the Elliott School announcement here.
