October 2016
Unlocking the potential of annular ion engines
... the AIE technology readiness level, while yielding multiple product pathways supporting NASA, national space security, and commercial space applications. Author’s note All concepts disclosed in the publication are covered under US Patent #8,468...
October 2018
Using space-based data for humanitarian causes
... scholar at the Beijing Institute of Technology in 2017. His primary research areas are legal issues related to space security and cyberspace governance. Michael S Dodge currently serves as an Graduate Program Director and Assistant Professor in the...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
...missiles and robotic mechanisms that mimic space debris removal. The US National Space Defense Center (NSDC) provides threat-focused space domain awareness across the nation’s security space enterprise. Space Force priorities Nations around the world...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... and satellite communications technologies – but it will also likely be a time of new challenges, particularly wherein cyber security is concerned. Space travel and satellite communications systems are now seeing innovation and growth brought by new...
March 2015
Russia and safe space initiatives
... one of the key objectives of Russian diplomacy. The current legal framework in this sphere does not guarantee secure space, leaving room for a possible arms race. One of the worst elements of the Cold War was the...
October 2015
From NEOs to real action: testing asteroid impact scenarios
... should not take us to a whole new level of preparedness and response. Only by working together will the global space and disaster management communities persuade governments and supra-national organisations that this is an aspiration worth aiming...
