Strauss Center Non-resident Scholar Diane Howard was quoted in a recent article published by SpacePolicyOnline.Com on the Trump administration’s Executive Order concerning NASA. On August 28, President Trump issued an executive order that reclassifies NASA as being primarily engaged in intelligence or national security work, removing collective bargaining rights for a significant portion of NASA’s workforce.
“We, as a nation, need to remember why we chose a civilian agency to lead the world in science and exploration back in 1958, and be careful not to create obstacles to continuing our remarkable successes in the years since,” writes Dr. Howard.
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...