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The Aerospace Security Project (ASP) is a trusted resource for policymakers, offering insightful thoughts and in-depth analyses on policy issues, operational concepts, technology trends, and economic drivers in the space and air domains. Our mission is to educate and inform policymakers and the public, conduct independent research and analysis, and convene experts with broad perspectives to advance creative and practical solutions that address the security challenges facing the United States and our allies and partners. ASP also fosters the next generation of scholars in national security space and air power policy through fellowship and internship opportunities.

Part of the Defense and Security Department at CSIS, ASP is led by Senior Fellow Kari A. Bingen and includes a distinguished group of expert affiliates spanning national security, civilian, commercial, and international aerospace issues.

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Blurred Orbits: Inside China’s Commercial Space Expansion

The expansion of China’s commercial space industry is stunning in both scale and speed. U.S. policymakers must understand these trends now, before America finds itself outpaced in sheer industrial capacity and output.

Report by Kari A. Bingen, Aidan Powers-Riggs, and Chantal Li — July 29, 2026

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Blurred Orbits: Inside China’s Commercial Space Expansion

The expansion of China’s commercial space industry is stunning in both scale and speed. U.S. policymakers must understand these trends now, before America finds itself outpaced in sheer industrial capacity and output.

Report by Kari A. Bingen, Aidan Powers-Riggs, and Chantal Li — July 29, 2026

Playbook or Rental? U.S. Counter-Drone Defense and the 2026 World Cup

For the 2026 World Cup, the United States built its first nationwide drone defense in months. Whether the country keeps a counter-drone playbook it can carry forward, or returns a six-week rental once the stadiums empty, is the choice it faces the morning after the final.

Commentary by Alexei Hoffman — July 15, 2026

Nuclear Armed Hypersonic Missiles | HTK

Please join the CSIS Defense and Security Department for a discussion on nuclear armed hypersonic missiles and whether the United States should reconsider its longstanding hypersonic policy.

Event — June 18, 2026

NASA Changes Course on Commercial Space Stations

NASA is shifting (again) it's plans to maintain a human presence in low Earth orbit, making changes to how it will replace the International Space Station. These changes will add costs and delays. They are also a departure from NASA efforts to use as-a-service models to lay the foundations of a future space economy.

Commentary by Clayton Swope — May 27, 2026

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NASA Changes Course on Commercial Space Stations

An audio version of "⁠NASA Changes Course on Commercial Space Stations⁠," a new commentary by CSIS’s Clayton Swope. This audio was generated with text-to-speech by Eleven Labs. 

Podcast Episode by Clayton Swope — May 27, 2026

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