Peer-reviewed journal articles, public policy contributions, regulatory submissions, open research outputs, books, and selected publications from the Lunar Research Initiative.
The newest JBIS publication reframes delayed lunar supervision as a decision-freshness problem and distinguishes corrective, advisory, and historical supervisory roles under communication delay.
This article examines when delayed supervisory input remains useful for local action during lunar surface operations. It argues that task-dependent freshness boundaries provide a more operationally meaningful concept than a universal delay threshold.
Evidence-based contributions to public policy, regulatory review, and government decision-making on commercial space transportation, mission assurance, infrastructure, and space governance.
This public comment recommends that the Department of Transportation advance Puerto Rico into a comparative, federally coordinated feasibility and launch-corridor study centered on Roosevelt Roads and Ceiba.
The submission proposes a phased space transportation complex and establishes decision gates for safety, operator demand, environmental and land readiness, resilient infrastructure, community participation, and lifecycle finance.
Published research on communication delay, evidence integrity, verification timing, supervisory autonomy, and decision authority in lunar operations.
Reframes delayed lunar supervision as a decision-freshness problem and distinguishes corrective, advisory, and historical supervisory roles.
Compares a simplified performance-only continuation policy with an assurance-bounded policy, showing why continued performance should not alone define acceptable autonomous continuation.
Examines the mismatch between changing lunar hazards and the delayed operational picture available to remote supervisors.
Presents a quality framework for allocating decision authority, setting verification boundaries, and preserving evidence integrity under communication delay and partial observability.
Selected open outputs addressing decision quality, delayed authority, critical-to-quality decomposition, process drift, predictive signatures, and verification design.
A practical decision-quality reference for high-risk contexts where evidence, authority, timing, and accountability must remain aligned before action.
A practical guide for assigning, bounding, and reviewing decision authority when communication delay prevents continuous real-time supervision.
Develops a critical-to-quality map for lunar additive manufacturing, including environmental modifiers, process drift, and verification-load design.
Introduces predictive-signature constructs for lunar manufacturing systems, including drift detection, verification overload, and decision latency under environmental constraints.
Examines process-drift mechanisms in regolith-based manufacturing and the verification structures required to preserve process stability as materials and operating conditions change.
Book-length treatments of lunar systems, governance, evidence, verification, and decision authority.
Examines governance failure modes unique to lunar missions, including communication delay, degraded evidence, constrained verification, and distributed decision authority.
Introduces the Moon’s origin, physical environment, exploration history, resources, scientific value, and role in the future of sustained human space activity.
This page highlights selected published and developing research outputs. Follow the Aerospace Quality Brief and the LRI research pages for new publications, framework updates, and project announcements.