New Dimensions for a Challenging Security Environment: Growing Exposure to Critical Space Infrastructure Disruption Risk

Adrian V. Gheorghe; Alexandru Georgescu; Olga Bucovețchi; Marilena Lazăr; Cezar Scarlat

doi:10.1007/s13753-018-0197-2

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Adrian V. Gheorghe, Alexandru Georgescu, Olga Bucovețchi, Marilena Lazăr, Cezar Scarlat. New Dimensions for a Challenging Security Environment: Growing Exposure to Critical Space Infrastructure Disruption Risk[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2018, 6(4): 555-560. doi: 10.1007/s13753-018-0197-2

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Adrian V. Gheorghe, Alexandru Georgescu, Olga Bucovețchi, Marilena Lazăr, Cezar Scarlat. New Dimensions for a Challenging Security Environment: Growing Exposure to Critical Space Infrastructure Disruption Risk[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2018, 6(4): 555-560. doi: 10.1007/s13753-018-0197-2

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Adrian V. Gheorghe, Alexandru Georgescu, Olga Bucovețchi, Marilena Lazăr, Cezar Scarlat. New Dimensions for a Challenging Security Environment: Growing Exposure to Critical Space Infrastructure Disruption Risk[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2018, 6(4): 555-560. doi: 10.1007/s13753-018-0197-2

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New Dimensions for a Challenging Security Environment: Growing Exposure to Critical Space Infrastructure Disruption Risk

doi: 10.1007/s13753-018-0197-2

1 Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA;
2 Romanian Association for Space Technology and Industry(ROMSPACE), 061126 Bucharest, Romania;
3 University Politehnica of Bucharest, 060042 Bucharest, Romania;
4 Military Equipment and Technologies Research Agency of the Romanian Ministry of Defense(METRA), 077025 Clinceni, Ilfov County, Romania

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The findings presented in this article are based on a research project—“Software applications for modelling critical infrastructure dependency on space systems”—undertaken by the Romanian Association for Space Industry and Technology with the Military Equipment and Technologies Research Agency of the Romanian Ministry of Defense. The work was supported by a grant of the Program for Research, Development and Innovation for Space Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) administered by the Romanian Space Agency, project number 191/2017. A principal beneficiary of the project results is the SCIPRO Center—Space Critical Infrastructure Protection at the Romanian Space Agency.

Available Online: 2021-04-26

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Abstract

Space systems have become a key enabler for a wide variety of applications that are vital to the functioning of advanced societies. The trend is one of quantitative and qualitative increase of this dependence, so much so that space systems have been described as a new example of critical infrastructure. This article argues that the existence of critical space infrastructures implies the emergence of a new category of disasters related to disruption risks. We inventory those risks and make policy recommendations for what is, ultimately, a resilience governance issue.
- Complex systems,
- Infrastructure disruption,
- Resilience governance,
- Space infrastructure,
- System interdependencies

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