Educational tools, visualization platforms, and thought leadership bridging space governance, cybersecurity, AI, and immersive visualization for the global space community.
Three original frameworks driving the global conversation in space governance, cybersecurity, and lunar navigation infrastructure.
The quantifiable economic leverage created when radiation-hardened FPGA edge AI enables autonomous, millisecond-class decision-making aboard spacecraft — compressing commercial lunar and LEO mission timelines and translating directly into capital efficiency and first-mover advantage.
Cryptographic Operations for Space Monitoring and Information Circulation. Integrating fully homomorphic encryption with post-quantum cryptographic primitives to enable computing on encrypted data for space domain awareness — multiple parties jointly analyzing conjunction data without exposing proprietary orbital information.
The certification vacuum at the heart of lunar navigation infrastructure. How do you certify that a navigation signal around the Moon — broadcast by a satellite you didn't build, under a jurisdiction not party to your framework — is accurate and safe to use?
Thought leadership published on Medium — covering space governance, economic statecraft, and the geopolitics of the orbital economy. Most recent first.
Feb 2026 — Inside the inaugural UN Space Debate on debris remediation and the insurance crisis.
The governance vacuum at the heart of cislunar navigation infrastructure.
A strategic framework for leveraging economic tools in the new space competition.
Summary of remarks delivered at Chatham House on the future of space governance.
Peer-reviewed and featured publications spanning space power strategy, traffic management, and assured access frameworks.
Spacepower Magazine — Spring 2025
Reframing the space race beyond speed to encompass governance, sustainability, and strategic depth.
Spacepower Magazine — 2024
Economic statecraft and the invisible strategic competition playing out in orbit.
SFA Magazine — 2024 | Co-author: Simmons
A foundational axiom for ensuring reliable access to and action in the space domain.
Acta Astronautica Vol. 229 — 2025
Peer-reviewed analysis of space traffic management challenges across the cislunar and interplanetary domains.
Production-ready tools built at the intersection of space physics, orbital mechanics, policy, and immersive visualization. Each application is live and accessible now.
3D interactive Fokker-Planck radiation belt physics visualization with slider-controlled parameters (L-star, Energy, pitch angle, diffusion coefficients, Kp, Dst, solar wind), real-time equation computation, satellite orbit tracking with THEMIS GLB model, and WebXR VR support. Built via AI-assisted vibe coding in under 10 minutes.
3D globe visualization with satellite conjunction alerts, severity filtering, avoidance maneuver path rendering, real-time timeline playback, and interactive satellite tracking. Built with React/Three.js/WebGL.
Browser-based educational arcade game teaching debris liability economics and orbital mechanics. JavaScript/WebXR proof of concept for production rebuild in Unreal Engine 5.7 for deployment in MITRE's IGLOO immersive dome.
Next.js application turning the UN COPUOS STSC document ecosystem into a navigable, traceable knowledge product. Semantic + keyword search with "Issue Brief" navigation UX. Next.js/TypeScript/Prisma/pgvector.
Built under IAF Technical Committee 26 on Space Traffic Management. Persistent catalogue of voluntary behavioral norms with community upvoting, logistic regression visualizations, 95% confidence intervals, RFE intake wizard, operator directory, and global notification system.
The next generation of SpaceSherpa tools is on the horizon. These platforms will push the boundaries of space situational awareness and operational learning.
Next-generation space situational awareness visualization platform. Designed to deliver unprecedented clarity on the orbital environment through advanced rendering and real-time data integration.
Retrospective analysis and lessons-learned platform for space operations. Enabling operators and policymakers to extract structured insights from historical space events and near-misses.
A comprehensive body of policy research published through The MITRE Corporation, spanning space cybersecurity, economic resilience, cislunar strategy, and sustainability frameworks.
Published across space governance, cybersecurity, and sustainability
Over six years of continuous policy research output
IAF, AMOS, AIAA, and ASCEND venues
Peer-reviewed technical and policy papers presented at the world's leading space conferences — from IAF and AMOS to AIAA ASCEND.
AIAA ASCEND 2021
AIAA ASCEND 2020
77th International Astronautical Congress | Oct 5–9, 2026 | IAF TC-26 Committee Session, NORMSAT Paper
September 2026 | Presenting the COSMIC Framework
May 2026
February 2025 | Panel with UNOOSA Director Aarti Holla-Maini and EU Special Envoy van Deelen
April 2025 | Featured speaker
February 2026 | Keynote intros for UNOOSA Director and Dr. Borowitz
February 2026 | IAA delegation expert; session reports and op-eds
Six papers at IAC 2024 alone
SpaceSherpa is a thought leadership and educational technology brand bridging space governance, cybersecurity, AI, and immersive visualization for the global space community. All content advances informed discourse on the most consequential questions facing the orbital economy.
Interactive applications and visualizations that make complex space concepts accessible to policymakers, operators, and the public.
Original frameworks, op-eds, white papers, and conference papers shaping the global conversation on space governance and security.
Live web applications and immersive tools that transform raw orbital data into actionable, navigable knowledge products.
SpaceSherpa — Navigate the Future of Space