The Aerospace Corporation maintains one of the more useful public collections of space, defense, engineering, policy, and mission assurance resources available from a federally funded research and development center. Its publications and resources page brings together annual reports, technical papers, fact sheets, policy studies, space safety materials, mission assurance guidance, commercial space references, cybersecurity papers, and technology overviews that reflect the organization’s long-standing role in supporting government, civil, commercial, and national security space activities.
For researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs, investors, educators, and space industry professionals, the collection is valuable because it provides direct access to materials that are often more technical, operational, and policy-focused than general space news coverage. The documents cover subjects ranging from commercial space and small satellites to spaceports, launch assurance, space traffic management, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, human spaceflight safety, lunar programs, propulsion, and space environmental effects. Together, they offer a practical view of how space systems are developed, tested, protected, regulated, and operated.
This article provides a curated index of the publications and resources available through Aerospace.org. The purpose is to make the collection easier to browse, reference, and use as a starting point for further research into the technical, policy, and strategic issues shaping the modern space sector.
2025 Annual Report (aerospace.org)
A Trusted Partner for Commercial Space - Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
About the Center for Space Policy and Strategy (aerospace.org)
Accelerating Safe Space Nuclear Applications Virtual Workshop (aerospace.org)
Aerocubes: Accelerating Space with Small Satellite Technology (aerospace.org)
Agile Launch: Evolving Mission Assurance Processes (aerospace.org)
Alternative Sources for Single-Event Effects Testing Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (aerospace.org)
Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Space - Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Assessing the Potential Impacts of Space Weather (aerospace.org)
Assuring Effective and Safe Operations of Trusted Autonomous Systems (aerospace.org)
Atomic Clocks and Precision Timekeeping Laboratory - Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Best Practices for Generating Space Environment Specifications with Modern Tools (aerospace.org)
Chinese Space Station Tiangong-1 Fiery Reentry (aerospace.org)
Civil Systems Group Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Coming to GRIPS with Science (aerospace.org)
Commercial Human Spaceflight Safety Regulatory Framework (aerospace.org)
Commercial Space Futures (For Companies and Investors) - Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Commercial Space Futures (Government Partners) - Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Commercial Space Futures Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Communication Technologies And Engineering Division Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
COMSATCOM Laboratory Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Conceptualizing the Center for Space-weather Impacts and Innovation (aerospace.org)
Connecting With Commercial Space Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
CORDS Offers Space Debris Expertise (aerospace.org)
Counter-Drone Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (aerospace.org)
Cybersecurity Protections for Spacecraft: A Threat Based Approach (aerospace.org)
Detection and Reporting System (DARS) Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Digital Innovation Division - Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Direct Commercial Services Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
DiskSat: A New Form Factor for Small Satellites - Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Engineering and Integration for Commercial Space Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Engineering and Technology Group (aerospace.org)
ESTABLISHING SPACE CYBERSECURITY POLICY, STANDARDS, AND RISK MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (aerospace.org)
Expanding Space Design Options Using COTS (aerospace.org)
Hive Satellites Lead Innovation (aerospace.org)
Human Spaceflight (aerospace.org)
Human Spaceflight Safety: Regulatory Issues and Mitigating Concepts (aerospace.org)
Improving Mission Success of CubeSats (aerospace.org)
In-Space Novel Propulsion Technologies (aerospace.org)
Increased Launch Efficiency to Meet Commercial Demands (aerospace.org)
Information Systems and Cyber Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Investor Support and Technical Due Diligence - Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
It's a Wrap on Space Debris (aerospace.org)
Launch-U: Satellite Standards for Faster, More Efficient Launches (aerospace.org)
Lunar Programs (aerospace.org)
Monocle Technology Highlight (aerospace.org)
Moonlighter Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Needed Advancement for Research and Development in Space Cybersecurity (aerospace.org)
On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (aerospace.org)
Policy Compliance Roadmap for Small Satellites (aerospace.org)
Positioning, Navigation and Timing (aerospace.org)
Prairie Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Prime Focus Technology Highlight (aerospace.org)
Rapid Prototyping to Accelerate the Space Enterprise - Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Resilience Of Space Systems White Paper (aerospace.org)
Sensor Test, Evaluation, and Prototyping (STEP) Lab - Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Slingshot: Delivering New Technologies to Orbit - Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Small Satellite Propulsion - Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Smallsat Mission Services (aerospace.org)
Solving the Puzzle of Evolving Space Ecosystems (aerospace.org)
Space Acquisition Decision Making (aerospace.org)
Space Innovation (aerospace.org)
Space Safety Compendium (aerospace.org)
Space Safety Institute (SSI) Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Space Traffic Management Terminology (aerospace.org)
Spaceports - Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
SPARTA Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Spectrum Management Enables RF Sharing (aerospace.org)
State of Play: Lasercom Key to Building Internet In Space (aerospace.org)
State of Play: SmallSats Go Back to the Future (aerospace.org)
Strategic Foresight - Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Supporting Technologies for Autonomous Vehicles (aerospace.org)
Synthetic Aperture Radar (aerospace.org)
Technology Characterization, Assessment and Test (aerospace.org)
Technology Strategy (aerospace.org)
The Aerospace Corporation - Corporate Overview (aerospace.org)
The Aerospace Corporation’s AeroCube Program (aerospace.org)
The Application Usability Framework (aerospace.org)
The In-Space Rescue Capability Gap (aerospace.org)
The Need for Informed and Targeted Heliophysics Research (aerospace.org)
Vehicle Systems Division (VSD) Fact Sheet (aerospace.org)
Wildfire Intelligence Capability Gap Analysis (aerospace.org)
