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SPI faculty Dr. John Klein was interviewed by At the Water’s Edge podcast about his newest book “The Fight for the Final Frontier: Irregular Warfare in Space.”
The episode is available here on the podcast’s website, or in the adjacent Spotify widget.
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.”
SPI faculty Dr. John Klein was interviewed by the Irregular Warfare Podcast about his newest book “The Fight for the Final Frontier: Irregular Warfare in Space.”
The episode is available here on the Irregular Warfare Podcast website, or in the adjacent Spotify widget.
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.
VOX – FUTURE PERFECT: How the US is preparing to fight — and win — a war in space – By Tim Fernholz | Updated Feb 15, 2024, 10:19am EST
Aaron Bateman, who studies space security, notes that until the mid-1970s, the US didn’t have the technology to precisely target a satellite with a weapon; its main concept for anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons was to detonate a nuclear warhead as close as possible to the enemy spacecraft.
Space, notably, is the most classified of all military sectors, even more so than the nuclear program. “The US military will tell the US how many B-2s and F-22s that we have; we do not tell the world what we have up in orbit,” Bateman says.
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.
SPI continues to have a positive influence on our space businesses and community. Dan Hendrickson, Vice President of Business Development at Astrobotic Technology, Inc., is a SPI alumnus and former SPI Staff Assistant.
NASA, ULA, Blue Origin, and Astrobotic Technology, Inc., a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based space-robotics technology company, represent the many marvelous opportunities for graduates of the Space Policy Institute.
Update 01-10-2024 1:30 AM: Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One attempts to continue with NASA’s five payloads of scientific investigations abroad despite being unable to land on the Moon.
01-08-2024 2:18 AM: As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis program, this morning marked the successful launch of ULA’s Vulcan Rocket for Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One. Congratulations!
Below, Dan Hendrickson spoke about Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One on October 27, 2023.
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.
Elif Yüksel and Sydney Wisnosky received ISTP fellowship awards for the 2023-2024 academic year. SPI congratulates each of the awardees, and thanks Axiom Space for their generous support.
Elif Yüksel is a Fullbrighter and former research intern at EURISY, European Space Agencies Associations, in the use of space applications for societal benefits.
Sydney Wisnosky is a former intern for the NASA Ames Extractor for Chemical Analysis of Lipid Biomarkers in Regolith Project through the Axient Corporation. She has presented research at the 2022 Astrobiology Science Conference.
Elizabeth Anderson, Jessica Denham, Adam Stegal, and Eleanor Creasey received ISTP fellowship awards for the 2023-2024 academic year. SPI congratulates each of the awardees, and thanks Amazon Web Services for their generous support.
Elizabeth Anderson works as an International Program Specialist at NASA’s Office of International and Interagency Relations where her portfolio is focused on Earth science and emerging international partnerships.
Jessica Denham works at the Aerospace Corporation, where she is a member of the Horizon Scanning Cadre, the Strategic Advisory Council, and the Ideation Dev Team.
Adam Stegal is continuing a federal internship, helping to design a neurodiversity program that will be implemented across multiple agencies and serves on the Presidential Selection Committee for Warren Wilson College.
Ellie Creasey is currently an intern at the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center where she researches the geopolitical consequences of emerging technologies. Ellie worked with the Department of State and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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