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Cover of “Targets, Treaties, and Trade Secrets: Understanding Space Hybrid Architecture’s Legal Challenges,” showing satellites orbiting Earth; by Kim Sloan and Todd Pennington, April 2026.

April 16, 2026

Targets, Treaties, and Trade Secrets: Understanding Space Hybrid Architecture’s Legal Challenges

Space is a domain accessible to all states for civil, commercial, military, and intelligence activities.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Sept. 5, 2024, launched the NROL-113 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.

Jan. 3, 2025

The other space control: who does what in the national security space enterprise

In an op-ed on SpaceNews.com, Todd Pennington (Senior Research Fellow for Space Strategy and Policy) surveys several deliberations about roles and missions in the national security space enterprise.

Mr. Todd Pennington (third from left), Senior Research Fellow for Space Strategy and Policy at the Institute for Strategic Studies' Center for Strategic Research, moderated a panel on Current Issues in National Security Space Operations at the 19th Annual Eileen Galloway Symposium on Critical Issues in Space Law.

Dec. 17, 2024

Todd Pennington moderates panel at 19th Annual Eilene M. Galloway IISL Symposium on Critical Issues in Space Law

Mr. Todd Pennington, Senior Research Fellow for Space Strategy and Policy at the Institute for Strategic Studies' Center for Strategic Research, moderated a panel on Current Issues in National Security Space Operations at the 19th Annual Eilene M. Galloway IISL Symposium on Critical Issues in Space Law.