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MIT professor develops method to verify compliance with Outer Space Treaty
Danagoulian
Areg Danagoulian of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is proposing a mechanism for verifying that Earth-orbiting satellites are in compliance with the Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits the placement of nuclear weapons in space. Danagoulian’s “concept and feasibility study,” titled “Verification of the Outer Space Treaty with cosmic protons,” was published recently in the journal Nature.
Technical Session|Panel|Space Nuclear Propulsion
Tuesday, May 6, 2025|1:00–2:40PM CDT|SPOC A (Space & Rocket Center)
Session Chair:
Julia E. Cline
Session Organizer:
Track Organizer:
Harold Gerrish (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
This discussion will include panelists who are working on tangential technologies in the area of in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing that will benefit space nuclear propulsion architectures.
Will Grier
NASA Langley Research Center
Mitchell Rodriguez
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Kerry Timmons
Lockheed Martin
John Lymer
MDA Space