Can you recommend aerospace security journals for researching satellite resilience and program-level defense updates?

Yes — if you’re researching satellite resilience and program-level defense/security updates, you’ll usually want a mix of:

1. Aerospace/space systems journals for technical resilience and architecture work
2. Defense/security journals for acquisition, policy, and program-level developments
3. Cyber/assurance journals because modern satellite resilience often overlaps with cyber and GN&C security

Here are good places to start:

Space and aerospace-focused journals

• Acta Astronautica
  Broad space systems journal; good for satellite mission design, resilience, and operational robustness.

• Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets (AIAA)
  Strong for spacecraft engineering, fault tolerance, redundancy, and survivability topics.

• Aerospace Science and Technology
  Publishes applied aerospace research, including system resilience and space system engineering.

• IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine / Journal
  Useful for resilient systems, avionics, navigation, sensor fusion, and mission assurance topics.

• Space Policy
  Best for policy, strategy, governance, and program-level space security developments.

Security, defense, and resilience journals

• Defense and Security Analysis
  Good for program-level defense policy, procurement, and security posture discussions.

• Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation
  Useful when resilience is studied through mission analysis, wargaming, or systems modeling.

• Strategic Studies Quarterly or similar defense policy journals
  Helpful for broader defense-space integration and resilience strategy.

• Journal of Strategic Security
  Covers national security and emerging threats, including space-related security issues.

Cyber/assurance journals relevant to satellites

• International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection
  Very relevant if you’re looking at satellite systems as critical infrastructure.

• Computers & Security
  Good for satellite cyber defense, attack surfaces, and secure systems engineering.

• IEEE Security & Privacy
  Broader security journal, but often useful for security architecture and assurance concepts.

• Journal of Aerospace Information Systems (AIAA)
  Strong for autonomy, command-and-control, resilient space communications, and cyber-physical systems.

Where to find program-level defense updates

For updates on programs, budgets, doctrine, acquisition, and capabilities, journals can help, but you’ll often get better current information from:

• Space News
• Defense News
• Jane’s Defence Weekly / Janes
• Breaking Defense
• Aerospace America
• Government and official sources like:
  • GAO reports
  • RAND publications
  • DoD / Space Force / NASA release documents
  • Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports

Best journal mix depending on your goal

• If you want technical satellite resilience:
  Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Acta Astronautica, IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Journal

• If you want satellite cyber resilience:
  Computers & Security, International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Journal of Aerospace Information Systems

• If you want program-level defense/security updates:
  Space Policy, Defense and Security Analysis, plus trade publications like Defense News and Breaking Defense

If you want, I can also give you:

• a shortlist of the top 5 most relevant journals
• open-access options
• or a search strategy / keyword list for satellite resilience research.