Okemos+-+Space-Based+Solar+Power

 Contention 1 – Inherency** Smith 03 "The Case for Space Based Solar Power Development" http://spacedaily.com/news/ssp-03b.html "The potential for power from space...............being done in the US." Prado 02 "Environmental Effects of SPSs on Earth" http://www.permanent.com/p-sps-ec.htm "Putting off the problem until later................matter of when, and who."
 * __VARSITY STATES VERSION 2.0__
 * Funding for Solar Power Satellites, or SPS, was completely cut.**
 * SPS development is inevitable – It's a question of who and how quickly we can develop it.**

Rouge 07 "Space-Based Solar Power as an Opportunity for Strategic Security" "FINDING: The SBSP Study Group found that SBSP directly addresses the concerns............powerful expression of this imperative." Walker 02 "Final Report of the Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry Commissioners" "The federal government plays a key role................air transportation and science." Rouge 07 "FINDING: The SBSP Study Group found that SBSP offers a path to address the concerns over......American Competitiveness Initiative." Segal 04 "Is America Losing its Edge?" Foreign Affairs "Summary: For 50 years, the United States has maintained its...........technological entrepreneurship at home." Aerospace Industries 05 "The Future of Aerospace Standardization" "Military specifications and standards have been fundamental..............to the greatest extent practicable." Kagan 07 "End of Dreams, Return of History" " This is a good thing, and it should continue to be a primary................involvement will provide an easier path."
 * Advantage 1 – Hegemony**
 * U.S. Aerospace leadership is falling – Federal focus and expansion in SPS is key to maintain leadership.**
 * Federal support of aerospace is vital to aerospace leadership.**
 * SPS maintains U.S. competitiveness – A prerequisite to retaining primacy.**
 * Failure to secure U.S. technological superiority risks collapse of the foundation of U.S. hegemony.**
 * Military specifications and standards are key to aerospace standardization.**
 * Sustainable U.S. hegemony prevents multiple scenarios for nuclear conflict – Prefer it to all alternatives.**

Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis 07 http://www.ifpa.org/pdf/IWGreport.pdf "Although the United States remains at the forefront..............twenty-first-century space power." The Trumpet 07 "New Global Battlefront: Satellite Warfare" "Racing across the Iraqi desert in the 1991.........this is going to reach a crisis." Ramos 2k "Solar Power Constellations: Implications for the United States Air Force" "In addition to the terrestrial implications...............fuel for the generators." Tellis 07 "China's Military Space Strategy" "Finally, the growing Chinese capability for.............arms race, and win." Straits Times 2k "No One Gains in War Over Taiwan" Lexis "The high-intensity scenario...........war against the Americans)." Tellis 07 "China's Space Weapons" "On Jan. 11, 2007, a Chinese medium-range ballistic missile......................to its global primacy." Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis 07 "It has been argued speciously that, since some space-based weapons could...........to terrorist groups as well." Dolman 05 "U.S. Military Transformation and Weapons in Space" "Indeed, it is concern for the unanticipated.............burst of economic expansion." Krepon and Heller 04 "A Model Code of Conduct for Space Assurance" "The flight testing and prospective deployment of...............................weapons and space assurance."
 * Advantage 2 – Space**
 * 35 countries are challenging U.S. space power and the inevitable space race already started. Even though U.S. is superior in technology now, continued development is necessary.**
 * China is specifically developing asymmetric warfare technologies for space against the U.S., but we are starting to lose our superiority in space now. A new space program is key to maintain our primacy.**
 * Space based solar power is the stepping stone for military power in space.**
 * Our inability to outpace China in space makes war inevitable – We would lash out based on perception.**
 * War with China over Taiwan due to preemptive strikes risks extinction.**
 * Space arms control treaties fail in the context of China – They believe it is not in their interest, and only U.S. will lose out. The only way those treaties will ever work is if we have space dominance over them.**
 * Not only is space militarization non-unique and empirically denied, but other countries are actively researching the technology and we can't stop it. Only the U.S. could deter misuse in the technology or else there will be a power vacuum fueling further arms races.**
 * U.S. space militarization is superior to any alternative because it prevents global arms race in space. This also allows a non-interventionist form of hegemony via deterrence.**
 * Competition in space causes global wars and extinction**.

Mankins 08 www.nss.org/adastra/AdAstra-SBSP-2008.pdf "At the same time current space…progress in space transportation" Britt 01 www.space.com/missionlaunches/colonize_why_011008-4.html "It’s no secret. Sooner…we have the chance. " Hempsell 06 Mark “Space power as a response to global catastrophes” "Large near earth object impacts…Earth Lagrange point." Easterbook 08 Brookings Institutions fellow and contributing editor to the Atlantic and the new republic. “the sky is falling” "Breakthrough ideas have a way of seeming…reach Earth’s surface"
 * Advantage 3 - Space Colonization**
 * Access to space is dependent upon a reliable energy source and launch services, only sps solves**
 * Space colonization key to survival—asteroids and natural disasters will make earth uninhabitable. Empirically proven**
 * Sps is key to asteroid deflection.**
 * The impact of an asteroid is equivalent to that of one thousand nuclear bombs**

Boyle 07 "Power from space? Pentagon likes the idea" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21253268/ "The military itself could become…actually developing a SBSP capability." "FINDING: The SBSP Study Group found that adequate capital…informed business plan decision." Ashworth 08 "In defense of the knights" http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1153/1) "This came as news to me…contents of the NSSP study report." Aerospace industries 05 "The future of aerospace standardization" "The DoD is committed to increased defense…industry standardization activities." Aerospace Industries 05 "Aerospace has been at the center of America's…the most powerful mechanisms for propagating"
 * Contention 3 – Solvency**
 * Technology or timeframe is not the problem- The DoD, as an anchor tenant, will spur SPS development**
 * The capital for SPS development exists now- Federal action creates a signal of viability and safety of SPS tech development** Rouge 07
 * There are no technological barriers and a demonstration project could be online in 4 years**
 * DoD involvement is vital to standardization in the private sector**
 * Standards in the aerospace industry are necessary to retain technological dominance**