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The Space Policy Institute was well represented at the 7th Prague Space Security Conference on June 16-18, 2024. At the conference participated SPI Director Scott Pace, SPI Faculty Peter Hays, SPI Non-Resident Scholars Deganit Paikowsky and Dean Cheng.
Maj. Staats is a recent SPI grad and is now working as an aide de camp To LTG Thomas James, deputy commander of US Space Command.
SPI’s Professor Aaron Bateman was interviewed by Australia’s ABC Radio National about the history of global telecommunications networks and their vulnerabilities.
The interview was based on his recent article in Engelsberg Ideas on the vulnerabilities of submarine cables and how they can be partially mitigated using proliferated satellite communications.
Watch the full interview here.
Read the full article here.
SPI Director Dr. Scott Pace was interviewed by NHK World Japan on the topic of US-Japan cooperation in space exploration.
Dr. Pace offered insights into the way in which the US leverages its international partnerships for the Artemis program.
You can find the full interview here: New Competition to the Moon: Scott Pace / Director, Space Policy Institute, George Washington University – DEEPER LOOK | NHK WORLD-JAPAN
SPI Director Professor Scott Pace took part in a panel discussion on the topic of Chinese space exploration, titled “When Will China Send Humans to the Moon and Mars?”.
The panel took place in the second day of the Humans to Mars Summit 2024, organized by Explore Mars and hosted at the George Washington University in May 2024.
You can follow the entire discussion below:
The latest article from SPI Director Dr. Scott Pace is titled “Beyond ISS: America must lead in LEO, cislunar and beyond”.
The article, published by Space News, was co-authored with former NASA administrator Charles Bolden, and former Space Policy Director of the National Security Council, Bill Liquori.
SPI Director Dr. Scott Pace will participate in the Dynamic Coalition on the Interplanetary Internet (DC-Interplanetary), a working group which will assemble during the next UN Internet Governance Forum meeting in Saudi Arabia.
The United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) serves to bring people together from various stakeholder groups in discussions on digital public policy. While it does not produce negotiated outcomes, the IGF informs and inspires those with policy-making power in both the public and private sectors. As a year-round process, the IGF includes policy, outreach, and community and capacity-building activities, all dedicated to facilitating a common understanding of how to maximise digital opportunities and address digital risks and challenges. IGF intersessional work culminates in annual meetings, where delegates discuss current and critical issues, share good practices and exchange policy recommendations with one another. The IGF’s resulting outputs are transmitted to global and national decision-making bodies.
The Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG) envisions a common network environment even in space will empower science, exploration and commercialization activities which will all become a benefit for humanity. This suggests a need for a governance ecosystem toward the establishment, operation and use of the Interplanetary Internet. In 2023, IPNSIG released a report laying out recommendations on governance of how the Interplanetary Internet ecosystem can be realized which can be used as a basis for future discussions at the “Dynamic Coalition on the Interplanetary Internet”.
SPI alumna Dr. Jana Robinson, Managing Director of the Prague Security Studies Institute, was interviewed by The Royal United Services Institute’s War In Space podcast about her research on the ‘ground-based space race’, where authoritarian states fund parts of the space economy in third countries to gain influence and shape their voting decisions. Their discussion explores these economic and financial threats, and how they further shape norms in space. They also discuss the soft power element of space and the future for international space cooperation in the context of the future decommissioning of the International Space Station.
The episode is available here on the podcast’s website, or in the adjacent Spotify widget.
SPI Research Professor Dr. Henry Hertzfeld was part of the US delegation to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.
Dr. Hertzfeld presented key issues of liability in outer space during the meeting of the UNCOPUOS Legal Subcommittee in Vienna.
You can find the full presentation here: Liability in Outer Space, a Cross-Cutting Problem
SPI Director Dr. Scott Pace was invited to be part of a panel discussion on the topic of space sovereignty and security. The panel was moderated by Mr. Sanjay Kumar, CEO of Geospatial World, and also featured Amb. Syed Akbaruddin, now Dean of the Kautilya School of Public Policy.
You can find the entire virtual discussion below:
