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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:
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 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:
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 was well represented at the 74th International Astronautical Congress, which was held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
The IAC is the premier annual event where global space actors gather, and attracts more than 6,000 participants each year, representing a myriad of space sectors and topics. The IAC offers the latest developments in academia and industry, and provides opportunities for exchanging ideas, networking, and potential partnerships.
SPI Director Dr. Scott Pace presented his paper “Global Space Futures — 2050” at the 36th International Academy of Astronautics Symposium on Space Policy, Regulations and Economics. You can read his paper below from the file uploaded to this page.
SPI Professor Dr. Henry Hertzfeld was recognized by the International Institute of Space Law with a certificate of appreciation for his service, and co-chaired “Space Economy Session – A focus on in-space operations and their potential to stimulate economic development” as well as “Cost and Procurement impacts on Space Programmes linked to high inflation
and world-wide scarcity of components and materials.”
SPI Research Professor Dr. Pascale Ehrenfreund was a speaker for the “Space for Emerging Ecosystems – Emerging Ecosystems for Space” section.
SPI MA alum and current GW PhD student Andrew Garza presented his paper “Engagement and Communication of the Space Sustainability Rating.”
Many SPI alumni attended as well, including Associate Professor Dr. Mariel Borowitz of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Angela Peura who works with NASA SCaN, and Faud Guliyev who lives in Baku.
SPI Director, Dr. Scott Pace, gave the prestigious Minta Martin Lecture for 2022 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology‘s Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics.
His lecture U.S. Space Policy, National Security & Global Futures, focused on U.S. national space policy and the work of the National Space Council during his tenure as Executive Secretary. He discussed issues pertaining to the national security, commercial, and civil sectors, as well as diplomatic, political, economic, and technological solutions necessary for the United States to succeed in space.
The Minta Martin Lecture is delivered in conjunction with a professorship established at MIT in 1955 in honor of Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, a leading figure in aviation and longtime Head of the MIT Aeronautical Engineering Department. Major Lester D. Gardner, founder of the Institute of Aerospace Sciences, conceived and aided in founding this endowed chair. To emphasize its national character, Glenn L. Martin contributed a special gift in April 1954 providing for presentation of this lecture, named after his mother, Minta Martin, who inspired him to his aeronautical achievements. The Minta Martin Lecture is given by the Hunsaker Professor in several Aeronautical centers throughout the nation each year.
Dr. Pace is an alumnus of MIT, and received master’s degrees in Aeronautics & Astronautics and Technology & Policy in 1982. SPI congratulates him on this prestigious recognition!
SPI Director, Dr. Scott Pace, led a panel at Ascend 2022 titled Public-Private Partnerships: An Ongoing Evolution.
Panelists included Chad Anderson of Space Capital, Joel Graham of Meeks, Butera & Israel PLLC, Rich Leshner of BryceTech, Eric Stallmer of Voyager Space, and Vanessa Wyche of NASA Johnson Space Center.
They discussed efficiencies to be gained by transitioning traditionally government-led programs to commercial services, and plans to create markets and expectations to achieve future savings.
A recording of the panel discussion is available here (registration required.)
SPI Director, Dr. Scott Pace, led a panel with Roy Azevedo, president of Raytheon Intelligence and Space, and Alexander MacDonald, chief economist at NASA, at the Global Aerospace Summit, hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. They discussed the future of technological research and advancements driving space exploration, and how these developing technologies may influence national security, sustainability, and life on Earth.
Kimitake Nakamura is a non-resident scholar at the Space Policy Institute from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On July 7, 2022 he offered a speech on the characteristics of norm-creation in space law at the Ibero-American Institute of Aeronautics, Space and Commercial Aviation Law.
An English translation of his remarks is available here.
