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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.
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.
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.
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.
