SERVICES

We are using A.B.E.T.® — Advise | Brief | Educate | Train — to pioneer a new model for bringing cutting-edge academic expertise direct to decision-makers worldwide in need of specialized training and trustworthy knowledge to inform their professional work.

As academia adapts to new and unprecedented realities, we aim for A.B.E.T.® to be a trusted brand for educational and other institutions seeking to support their researchers and to financially leverage their research expertise in the marketplace.

The A.B.E.T.® mark can be licensed by universities, think tanks, and other institutions to develop specific mission-driven platforms that bring academic and research subject-matter expertise for pay directly to local, national, and global decision-makers.

How do we A.B.E.T.® you? 

At SPACEAIMS, we use A.B.E.T.® to build out a worldwide platform focused on strengthening and supporting space diplomacy across commercial, civilian, and military realities.

Here’s how we do it, through in-person or virtual means.

Arrange and Lead Customized Dialogues

We bring our expertise, as well as our long-standing networks across the globe, to facilitate state-of-the-art knowledge of interest to you in exclusive dialogue settings. We chair, curate, and moderate all dialogues, with the aim of networking commercial, civilian, and military players with known scholars and researchers.

We provide in-kind support to the Space Diplomacy Symposium (SDS), which takes place annually in the fall. The aim of this symposium is to situate diplomacy in the traditional categories of civilian, commercial, and military space activities across all regions of the world. The 2024 SDS sponsors and program can be found here. The 2025 SDS is scheduled for 7 November 2025 in Seattle, Washington [Link forthcoming]

Since 2014, we have chaired the U.S.-Japan Space Forum, a track 1.5 dialogue now in its second decade. It connects the growing community of commercial, government, and academic stakeholders from the United States and Japan for regular exchange of cutting-edge information on space technology and policy developments. 

Organize and Deliver Professional Development Bootcamps

We work through educational institutes, think tanks, and other associations to carry out both online and onsite professional development bootcamps for space diplomacy. Depending on the requirements, these short and rigorous bootcamps bring together topics relevant to space diplomacy – such as space technology, space data, space law, space security, space policy, space medicine and biomedicine, as well as national, regional, and international space activities – in order to raise holistic knowledge and awareness of cutting-edge developments. These bootcamps are typically sponsored and delivered by the underlying institution, and may qualify participants for a letter of recognition that certifies their completion of the program. Professional development bootcamps run from a few hours to a few days.

Our upcoming professional development course will take place under the auspices of the International Studies Association (ISA), falling under its Professional Advancement Seminar Series (PASS) as a virtual seminar on 15 September 2025, 8:00 AM Pacific/11:00 AM Eastern. The working title for it will be “Building Skills for Space Diplomacy,” and it will give an overview of the foundational legal, political, and policy building blocks of interest to researchers and practitioners. Session details and registration here.

Design and Execute Table-Top Exercises (TTX)

We derive information from space events and incidents through table-top exercises (TTX), which are purposefully scoped to reveal technical and policy gaps in keeping space safe, secure, and sustainable. Through the captured information, we build a shared understanding of potential risks across a wide variety of space operations, especially as they intersect with emerging and disruptive technology frontiers such as nuclear, cyber, quantum, and AI. Each TTX completes with an after action review to guide analysis of the learning and performance. Stand-alone TTXs may range from 1-3 days, and may be combined with professional development bootcamps.

Our objective is to empower public and private decision-makers with information sharing protocols, response procedures, and best practices in the face of accidental and deliberate incidents. Although the TTX is restricted to participants, we extract and publish key takeaways that enable procedural, operational, and policy collaboration among countries facing common challenges in space.

Conduct and Disseminate Research Projects

We use our competence and networks across various academic disciplines — law, policy, diplomacy, politics, economics, science, health, medicine, biotechnology, and engineering — to research topics that affect space diplomacy across national, regional, international, and organizational contexts. We also assess the space diplomacy portfolios of countries, firms, and other actors. The requirements of the research project determine the length and style of the output.

Our recent research project under the auspices of the Research Corporation of the University of Hawai’i at Hilo was sponsored by The Korea Foundation. It aimed to bring space specialists in dialogue with leading Korea/Asia experts to analyze and assess “The Rise of Korea in the International Relations of Space.” The six papers were published in the peer-reviewed journal Asian Security in early 2025. One article “Space in the International Relations of Asia: A Guide to Technology, Security, and Diplomacy in a Strategic Domain” is available open access here.

Assemble and Curate The Space Diplomacy Newsletter

We observe, assess, and connect space diplomacy trends around the world. The aim is to build a trustworthy information ecosystem to raise awareness of space diplomacy at work. It is also to equip rising and aspiring professionals with foundational knowledge to tackle technical, legal, and policy challenges through diplomatic means.

We relay this public-facing information through The Space Diplomacy Newsletter, focused on bringing together weekly events, individual and country profiles, and guides to academic works, resources, and expertise that all relate to space diplomacy. It is available through substack.

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Please contact us at info@spaceaims.com to discuss your needs, or fill out a message form on our Contact page.