Far Out! Cislunar Research Forum
US Space Force Delta 13 and Foreign Policy Institute organized the "Far Out! Cislunar Research Forum" on Wednesday, March 26.
The Cislunar region between the Earth and the Moon is increasingly prioritized by space powers as crucial to achieving their longer-term development priorities across the military-civilian, public-private, and geographical regional divides. This forum focused on cislunar competition and cooperation among space powers and emerging governance frameworks. The four panelists – leading thinkers in cislunar research from the US Space Force and SAIS-Johns Hopkins and the Secure World Foundation – presented research including:
Applying international regimes to address cislunar conflicts of interest;
Explaining through network analysis the emerging alignment of space powers with either Chinese-led or American-led scientific and normative projects.
Exploring the interactive dynamics of China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Middle Eastern and South Asian space powers as they strive to define their cislunar policies and adopt best practices.
Predicting how cislunar capabilities could bridge the terrestrial-based security and developmental uses of outer space through ambitious resource exploration and colonization plans for the Moon and Mars and beyond.
Panelists include:
Dr. Gregory Miller (US Space Force, SAIS-Johns Hopkins)
Dr. Svetla Ben-Itzak (US Space Force, SAIS-Johns Hopkins)
Dr. Namrata Goswami (US Space Force, SAIS-Johns Hopkins)
Mr. Christopher Johnson (Secure World Foundation)
Moderated by Professor Kun-Chin Lin (US Space Force, SAIS-Johns Hopkins)