A sampling of links to recent space policy, politics, and government (US and international) related space news and resource items that I found of interest (find previous space policy roundups here):

• Schedule:
  • What’s Happening in Space Policy July 5-11, 2020 – SpacePolicyOnline.com
• Congressional space:
  • House, Senate continue work on space-related legislation – SpaceNews.com
  • How A Bold US Senator Is Leveraging The Space Race For A Better Tomorrow – Charles Beames/Forbes
• Space law:
  • The Artemis Accords: repeating the mistakes of the Age of Exploration – The Space Review
• Commercial crew:
  • The long countdown to commercial crew’s liftoff – SpaceNews
  • Starliner Parachutes Perform Under Pressure – Boeing
• Commercial space:
  • NASA Invests $51 Million in Innovative Ideas from US Small Businesses – NASA
• Space exploration:
  • Op-ed | On the verge of a new era for space exploration? Assessing the impact of the ongoing crisis – SpaceNews
•  Regulation:
  • Sausage making in space: the quest to reform commercial space regulations – The Space Review
  • Virgin Galactic expects to receive key FAA license within next two spaceflights – CNBC
• Spectrum:
  • Hughes, Inmarsat urge FCC restrictions on subsidized C-band satellites – SpaceNews.com
• Space traffic:
  • SWF Releases Updated Compilation of Anti-satellite Testing in Space | Secure World
  • 2nd Summit for Space Sustainability Student Essay Competition | Secure World
• Weather satellites:
  • NOAA Declares Commercial Weather Data Pilot Program a Success – SpacePolicyOnline.com
  • Ball Aerospace wins NOAA weather instruments study contracts – SpaceNews.com
  • Just in time for severe weather: Radio occultation data feeds NOAA weather models – SpaceNews
• US national security:
  • Launch:
    • DoD withdraws Defense Product Act small launch contract awards – SpaceNews.com
    • Smith encouraged by Senate NDAA proposal to increase funding for space launch technology – SpaceNews.com
    • SpaceX Satellite Launch Marks U.S. Military Embrace of Reusable Rockets – WSJ
    • When it Comes to Missiles, Don’t Copy Russia and China — Leapfrog Them – War on the Rocks
  • House and Senate Make Progress on the FY2021 NDAA – SpacePolicyOnline.com
  • Analysts: NRO’s commercial imagery purchases could reach $400 million by 2023 – SpaceNews.com
  • HASC amendments question space acquisition reforms, challenge DoD plans to procure new systems – SpaceNews.com
  • Enhancing space deterrence thought for nuclear threshold threats (part 1) – The Space Review
  • Space Force Unveils Organizational Structure – SpacePolicyOnline.com
  • Air Force says 26 states have submitted bids to host U.S. Space Command – SpaceNews
  • L3Harris developing a constellation of small spy satellites for U.S. Air Force – SpaceNews

International space

• Australia:
  • Why outer space matters in a post-pandemic world – The Conversation
• China:
  • China’s commercial space industry charges ahead – Axios
  • Newt Gingrich: China poses serious threat to US in new space race – no issue is more important | Fox News
• Estonia:
  • #SpaceWatchGL Opinion: Estonia’s space policy – prioritizing e-gov, cybersecurity and AI – SpaceWatch.Global
•  Europe:
  • Airbus and ESA sign agreement to continue ISS operations – SpaceWatch.Global
  • ESA selects prime contractors for six new Copernicus missions – SpaceNews.com
  • ESA Startup competition announces four winners – ESA
• India:
  • Opinion | The opening up of India’s space sector is a big bang policy reform – Livemint.com
  • IN-SPACe: If Isro now focuses on missions of its own, India can aim to have a SpaceX or a Blue Origin – The Financial Express
• Israel:
  • With Iran in its sights, Israel launches new spy satellite into orbit | The Times of Israel
  • Israel’s Ministry of Defense, IAI Launch Ofek-16 Satellite into Orbit | Israel Defense
•  Japan:
  • Japan to boost space cooperation with US in revised policy – ABC News
• Russia:
  • Price of Angara rocket to decline in future — designers – TASS
  • Khrunichev space center plans to cut price of Angara carrier rockets to $57.3 mln by 2024 – TASS
  • Details About the First-Ever Tourist Walk in Outer Space Revealed – Sputnik International
  • Contracts Signed With Space Tourists Who Plan to Go to ISS Next Year – Space Adventures – Sputnik International
• UK:
  • UK government to acquire cutting-edge satellite network – GOV.UK
  • British government and Bharti Global buy OneWeb, plan $1 billion investment to revive company – SpaceNews
  • U.K. government acquires OneWeb in curious move – NASASpaceFlight.com
  • British government and Bharti Global buy OneWeb, plan $1 billion investment to revive company – SpaceNews
  • Why has the UK invested $500m in OneWeb’s satellites? – Daily Telegraph
  • UK government takes £400m stake in satellite firm OneWeb – BBC News
  • The UK may be about to blow $600 million on the wrong satellites as it tries to solve losing access to the EU’s satellite navigation system | Business Insider India

Webcasts:

** The Space Show – Tues. July.1.2020 – Rod Pyle and Dr. Anthony Paustian talked about the upcoming NSS A Day In Space and ISDC 2021.

** UK Government Rescues Oneweb From Bankruptcy – Scott Manley

After declaring bankruptcy earlier this year satellite network Oneweb has been rescued with a surprise, Billion dollar investment by the UK government and Bharti Global. More curiously, there are suggestions that the people behind the deal might be justifying the investment based on Oneweb being able to provide geolocation technology to replace Britain’s lost secure access to Galileo.

** E21 – Cislunar Stewardship: Planning for Sustainability and Cooperation (with Jim Vedda and George Pollock)  –  Aerospace CSPS 

** E22 – The Future of Commercial Space Flight (with Jamie Morin and Charlie Bolden) –  Aerospace CSPS 

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A sampling of links to recent space policy, politics, and government (US and international) related space news and resource items that I found of interest (find previous space policy roundups here):

• Schedule:
  • What’s Happening in Space Policy June 28-July 4, 2020 – SpacePolicyOnline.com
• NASA programs:
  • NASA’s Hunt for Lunar Water Intensifies – Scientific American
• NASA management:
  • Stability and certainty for NASA’s exploration efforts – The Space Review
  • Perspectives Video Interview with Stephen Jurczyk, Associate Administrator, NASA – SatNews
• Space and Covid-19:
  • Spaceflight after the pandemic – The Space Review
  • NASA, ESA, JAXA to track pandemic’s effects from space – UPI.com
• Commercial human spaceflight:
  • Commercial Human Spaceflight Making Strides – SpacePolicyOnline.com
  • NASA Developing a Plan to Fly Personnel on Suborbital Spacecraft | NASA
  • #SpaceWatchGL Opinion: Holidays in space: is the SpaceX Demo-2 launch the primer to a large private spaceflight industry? – SpaceWatch.Global
  • NASA agrees to fly astronauts on reused Crew Dragon spacecraft – Spaceflight Now
  • White House official recommends slow approach to high-speed suborbital transportation – SpaceNews.com
• Commercial space:
  • After nearly a month in space, NASA seems really happy with Crew Dragon | Ars Technica
  • Will private space travel change the way we explore the Solar System? – BBC Science Focus Magazine
  • NASA asks industry to provide it with greater access to microgravity | Ars Technica
  • Commercial Human Spaceflight Making Strides – SpacePolicyOnline.com
• SLS/Orion:
  • Nonpartisan But Political – The Politic
  • NASA’s mission to the moon is about far more than cost | TheHill
  • You Can’t Exert National Prestige With A Rocket That Does Not Fly – NASA Watch
• ISS:
  • What James Van Allen got wrong about NASA’s International Space Station | TheHill
  • Thales Alenia Space will provide two key pressurized elements for Axiom Commercial Space Station | Thales Group
• Space law:
  • #SpaceWatchGL Column: ESPI Brief 40 – USA seeking support for recovery and use of space resources – SpaceWatch.Global
•  Regulation:
  • Attention shifts to implementation of new commercial remote sensing regulations – SpaceNews.com
  • Op-ed | Satellites are data companies, too – SpaceNews.com
  • New Remote Sensing Regs Great Improvement, But Devil is in the Details – SpacePolicyOnline.com
  • FAA Shooting for September for Updated Commercial Space Launch Regulations – SpacePolicyOnline.com
• Spectrum:
  • SpaceX Satellite Internet Plan Hits Dish Ground Interference – BloombergLaw.com
  • Eutelsat to order single replacement C-band satellite for FCC spectrum clearing – SpaceNews.com
  • FCC makes headway in legal battle with ABS, Hispasat and Arsat over C-band auction – SpaceNews.com
  • New industry coalition to defend GPS against Ligado 5G plan – POLITICO
  • FCC Cracks Under Hill Pressure On Ligado 5G Network – Breaking Defense
• Space traffic:
  • Orbital use fees won’t solve the space debris problem – The Space Review
• US states space:
  • Kodiak launch site hopes for its first space tourism launch – Alaska Public Media
• Remote sensing:
  • Distributors should unplug the Earth imagery bottleneck – The Space Review
• Weather satellites:
  • NCEI Archives Data from COSMIC-2 Satellites – National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
  • Spire Global inks weather data deal using tiny satellites with NASA, European agencies – The Washington Post
  • ASTRA wins contract to study weather cubesat constellation – SpaceNews.com
• US national security:
  • Launch:
    • Space Force more receptive to reusable rockets as it continues to review SpaceX missions – SpaceNews.com
    • SASC NDAA authorizes $250 million for Air Force R&D partnerships with launch industry – SpaceNews.com
    • HASC Chairman adds $150 million in NDAA for space launch technology development – SpaceNews.com
  • DoD official: Many factors considered in Defense Production Act contracts – SpaceNews.com
  • NRO to award multiple imagery contracts by year’s end – SpaceNews.com
  • Undersecretary of Defense Mike Griffin and deputy Lisa Porter stepping down – SpaceNews.com
  • Griffin’s departure stirs questions about the future of the Space Development Agency – SpaceNews.com

International space

• Australia:
  • Satellites in orbit: Australia races to join new space economy – SMH.com.au
• Canada:
  • Canadarm3 to support Lunar Gateway space station – NASASpaceFlight.com
  • MDA to build robotic arm for lunar Gateway – SpaceNews.com
• China:
  • Mars mission would put China among space leaders – AAAS
  • China Threatens U.S. Space Power By Completing Satellite Network – BloombergQuint.com
• Europe:
  • An Agency for asteroids – ESA
  • Name given to asteroid target of ESA’s planetary defence mission – ESA
  • ESA awards €1 million to NanoAvionics to develop new satellite propulsion technologies | NanoAvionics
• Hungary:
  • Another Hungarian Astronaut to be Sent to Space In 2025? – Hungary Today
• India:
  • ‘IN-SPACe will be an autonomous body which won’t be influenced by Isro and it won’t influence Isro’ – Times of India
  • Nothing will go out of ISRO; we will enable private players: K. Sivan – The Hindu
  • Private Sector Will Have a Say in Gaganyaan & Chandrayaan Missions: ISRO Chief K Sivan – TheQuint.com
  • Many start-ups have come forward in space sector but no big corporates yet, ISRO chairman says – The Hindu
  • Private sector can now build rockets, provide launch services: ISRO chief K Sivan – ThePrint.in
• Russia:
  • Roscosmos says Baikonur spaceport operates in normal mode despite pandemic – TASS
  • Roscosmos says Angara space rocket’s high cost due to work at two production sites – TASS
• Serbian:
  • #SpaceWatchGL on the road: Engaging the Western Balkans in the space domain: How to take advantage of Earth Observation data – SpaceWatch.Global
• UAE
  • UAE’s Hope for Mars – Leonard David
• UK:
  • Brexit: UK starts work on buying own sat-nav system to rival Galileo – BBC News
  • UK to begin process of purchasing sat-nav system after pulling out of EU scheme | The New European
  • Sutherland satellite launch site plans win council approval – HIE
  • Spaceport plans approved despite hundreds of objections – BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
  • Scotland’s Space Hub – Leonard David
  • British-led consortium emerges as favorite to acquire OneWeb – Geekwire

Webcasts:

** Episode 19 – What’s Hot! 2nd Quarter 2020 – Space Thoughts – Michael Listner, space lawyer, publishes The Précis space law and policy journal.

** Webinar Replay | Mars Exploration: Blueprint for the Red Planet – SpaceNews.com

Author and award-winning space journalist Leonard David and SpaceNews Senior Staff Writer Jeff Foust talk with the director of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program and the project scientist for the soon-to-launch Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission about the status of the mission, next steps in robotic exploration, and how it leads to sending humans to Mars.

• • Jim Watzin, Director – Mars Exploration Program, NASA HQ
  • Ken Farley, Project Scientist, Mars 2020 Perseverance rover,  Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Richard (Rick) Davis, Jr.,  Assistant Director for Science and Exploration, NASA HQ

** MSBN S01E20 – Marek Ziebart and Why OneWeb Is A Bad Global Navigation System Investment for the UK – Cold Star Technologies

Dr. Marek Ziebart, Professor of Space Geodesy at University College London, is on the Make Space Boring show to share his views about why the proposed UK government investment in failing satellite constellation provider OneWeb is a bad idea. He dissects why investing to turn this constellation into a global navigation system is fraught with problems and could become a money pit.

** Space Café WebTalk Recap: Jessy Kate Schingler on Lunar Policy – SpaceWatch.Global

In this week’s Space Cafe Web Talk, Jessy Kate Schingler, Director of Policy and Governance for the Open Lunar Foundation, and a founding convener of the Moon Dialogs shared some food for thoughts on lunar policy and future governance models.

Jessy Kate Schingler talked about the rise of lunar policy, where the Moon, its topography, and cislunar space intersects with nascent private and state activity over the next 5-10 years. She focussed in particular on participation:

** The Space Show – June.28.2020 – David Livingston hosted an open lines program in which were discussed many different topics with multiple callers.

** The Space Show – Fri. June26.2020 – Jim Lewis first gave “an update on the business and economy of the Space Coast of Florida”. He then talked about his
“new Amazon Prime sci fy TV series” and about “film-making, science fiction and lots of related topics”.

** The Space Show – Tues. June.23.2020 – Dr. Jim Logan talked about “space policy, vision, lunar, China and more”.

** Chris Stott – Spectrum Filing Surprises In Satellite Manufacturing – Cold Star Project S02E45

Chairman & CEO of the ManSat group of companies Chris Stott is on the Cold Star Project, and our main topic is satellite spectrum. Where does the authorization for satellite communication frequencies come from, and how is it distributed? With host Jason Kanigan, Chris discusses: – the definition of “satellite spectrum” – how ManSat got the authority to distribute satellite spectrum, and from whom? Who is the target market, and what does the process of working with ManSat look like?

– what SpaceIsle.com is and how it is different from the ManSat corporate site
– experiences he has had as a member of the ISU Board of Directors
– projects he has worked on and produced as a “Multi Award winning Documentary Film Maker and Executive Producer”, per his LI profile
– what the Space & Satellite Professionals International organization is and what his involvement is
– how Chris helped develop Geeks Without Frontiers.

ManSat website: http://www.mansat.com/
SpaceIsle website: https://www.spaceisle.com/
SSPI website: https://www.sspi.org/
International Institute of Space Commerce website: https://iisc.im/
Geeks Without Frontiers website: http://geekswf.org/

** June 23, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black

** June 26, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black

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