The Strauss Center for International Security and Law is delighted to announce that Brittany Silvester will be awarded the inaugural Aerospace Policy Solutions LLC Award in Space Policy. This $2000 award, sponsored by Aerospace Policy Solutions LLC, is given to an exceptional UT-Austin student engaged in research related to space policy or interested in pursuing work related to space policy analysis and development after graduation.
Brittany Silvester is a second-year J.D. student at the University of Texas School of Law. Prior to law school, Brittany earned her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and minor in Spanish from the University of Florida. Throughout her career, Brittany has participated in several NASA internships in various capacities, ranging from researching Disruptive Modal Coupling technology for SLS vibrational damping to working as a commercialization analyst in NASA’s Technology Transfer Office. Brittany’s career goals and research interests lie at the intersection of interplanetary space travel and the law. Specifically, she is interested in determining how the law will govern sustainable methods of establishing long-term human presence on the Moon and Mars.
The Strauss Center for International Security and Law is proud to announce the permanent establishment of the Aerospace Policy Solutions, LLC Award in Space Policy, a new endowed scholarship made possible through the generous support of Aerospace Policy Solutions, LLC. The award will provide an annual $2,000 scholarship to an outstanding The University of Texas at Austin student pursuing space policy. The Aerospace Policy...
The University of Texas at Austin has received a $9.3 million seed grant from the Texas Space Commission to establish the Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Tools, Applications, and Processing (TAP) Lab, becoming the first academic institution to work directly with the United States Space Force to detect, analyze, and counter space-based threats in near real time. Space Security, Safety, & Sustainability...
At the Strauss Center’s “Operational Assurance for All” 12th Annual Space Traffic Conference, Aarti Holla-Maini, head of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, highlighted growing difficulties in contacting satellite operators to coordinate maneuvers and prevent collisions as orbital traffic increases. The conference was recently highlighted in SpaceNews. Holla-Maini revealed that her office intervened twice in the past year...