
Thomas G. Roberts is an adjunct fellow with the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. His research interests include civil and commercial space policy, space security, and orbital mechanics. Previously, Mr. Roberts has written on threats against space systems, space object behavior, and international relations in space. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, War on the Rocks, and other publications. Mr. Roberts is currently a graduate research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Astrodynamics, Space Robotics, and Controls Laboratory and a PhD student in the institute’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He holds an MS in aeronautics and astronautics and an MS in technology and policy from MIT and a BA in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University. In 2015, Mr. Roberts was named a Harry S. Truman scholar. In 2021, he was awarded the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship in support of his doctoral research in computational astrodynamics at MIT.
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Boost-Phase Missile Defense
Report by Ian Williams , Masao Dahlgren , Thomas G. Roberts , and Tom Karako — June 24, 2022
Online Event: Threats, Challenges, and Opportunities in Space
Event by Todd Harrison , Kaitlyn Johnson , Thomas G. Roberts , Makena Young , Dr. Christopher Ford , Dr. Brian Weeden , and Victoria Samson — April 6, 2020
Space Threat Assessment 2020
Report by Todd Harrison , Kaitlyn Johnson , Thomas G. Roberts , and Makena Young — March 30, 2020
Evaluating the Global Counterspace Landscape
Event by Todd Harrison , Kaitlyn Johnson , Thomas G. Roberts , Stephen Kitay , Victoria Samson , and Dr. Brian Weeden — April 23, 2019
Space Threat Assessment 2019
Report by Todd Harrison , Kaitlyn Johnson , and Thomas G. Roberts — April 4, 2019
Spaceports of the World
Report by Thomas G. Roberts — March 13, 2019
What Can 24 Satellites Do for U.S. Missile Defense?
Brief by Thomas G. Roberts — October 18, 2018
Assessing Threats to Space Systems
Event by Todd Harrison , Thomas G. Roberts , Victoria Samson , Brian Weeden , Kaitlyn Johnson , and Thomas G. Roberts — June 5, 2018
Space Threat Assessment 2018
Report by Todd Harrison , Kaitlyn Johnson , and Thomas G. Roberts — April 12, 2018
Implications of Ultra-Low-Cost Access to Space
Report by Todd Harrison , Kaitlyn Johnson , Thomas G. Roberts , and Andrew Philip Hunter — March 21, 2017