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 Decision-Velocity Dividend
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.
🔐 COSMIC Framework
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.
🌕 Cislunar PNT Governance
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?
Op-Eds on Medium
Thought leadership published on Medium — covering space governance, economic statecraft, and the geopolitics of the orbital economy. Most recent first.
Peer-reviewed analysis of space traffic management challenges across the cislunar and interplanetary domains.
Live Interactive Web Applications
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.
Coming Soon — Under Development
The next generation of SpaceSherpa tools is on the horizon. These platforms will push the boundaries of space situational awareness and operational learning.
🔭 SpaceSherpa Vision
Next-generation space situational awareness visualization platform. Designed to deliver unprecedented clarity on the orbital environment through advanced rendering and real-time data integration.
In Development
📡 SpaceSherpa Hind-site
Retrospective analysis and lessons-learned platform for space operations. Enabling operators and policymakers to extract structured insights from historical space events and near-misses.
In Development
White Papers — MITRE Publications
A comprehensive body of policy research published through The MITRE Corporation, spanning space cybersecurity, economic resilience, cislunar strategy, and sustainability frameworks.
77th International Astronautical Congress | Oct 5–9, 2026 | IAF TC-26 Committee Session, NORMSAT Paper
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AMOS 2026 — Maui, HI
September 2026 | Presenting the COSMIC Framework
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Veneto Space Meetings — Venice, Italy
May 2026
✅ Recent Highlights
Chatham House Space Security 2025 — London
February 2025 | Panel with UNOOSA Director Aarti Holla-Maini and EU Special Envoy van Deelen
SAIS Stellar Connections — Johns Hopkins SAIS
April 2025 | Featured speaker
12th Annual STM Conference — UT Austin
February 2026 | Keynote intros for UNOOSA Director and Dr. Borowitz
63rd UN COPUOS STSC — Vienna
February 2026 | IAA delegation expert; session reports and op-eds
IAC 2024 | AMOS 2024, 2023, 2022 | IAC 2022 Paris
Six papers at IAC 2024 alone
About SpaceSherpa
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.
Educational Tools
Interactive applications and visualizations that make complex space concepts accessible to policymakers, operators, and the public.
Thought Leadership
Original frameworks, op-eds, white papers, and conference papers shaping the global conversation on space governance and security.
Visualization Platforms
Live web applications and immersive tools that transform raw orbital data into actionable, navigable knowledge products.