Space policy roundup – Mar.27.2019

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:

Webcasts:

** Fifth Meeting of the National Space Council:

Vice President Mike Pence asked NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine to accelerate the agency’s lunar exploration plans during a National Space Council meeting held at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, March 26. In addition to targeting a human landing on the Moon in 2024, the council also discussed creating a new Moon to Mars Mission Directorate.

** Innovation, Speeding up Acquisition and Space Enterprise Architecture | Kratos Communications – Interview with Jeff Rowlison, VP of Strategy and Government Relations of Defense, Space and Security at Velos

Listen to Jeff Rowlison discuss the effort to leverage innovations coming out of the commercial satellite communications industry to support the Warfighter. Hear him discuss the Air Force envisioning the Warfighter roaming from MILSATCOM to COMSATCOM seamlessly, taking advantage of commercial options to accomplish Warfighter missions. Influencing the pace of innovation, the pace of contracting and acquisition are leaders such as General Hyten, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command and General Raymond, the Commander of U.S. Air Force Space Command. Jeff believes that going forward, companies with the capability to adapt their innovative services to fielded technology will be very important, however nothing happens quickly without funding.

** The Space Show – Tue, 03/26/2019 – 19:00Ian Fichtenbaum talked about “commercial space businesses, risk, acquisitions and more”.

** The Space Show – Sun, 03/24/2019Chris Carberry discussed Explore Mars, their Mars report from late last year, and their upcoming Humans2Mars Event in May 2019.

** The Space Show – Thu, 03/21/2019Henry Vanderbilt and Michael Wallis talked about “The Space Access Society Conference in Freemont, CA from April 18-20, contents, logistics, networking, registration, hospitality, event focus and more”.

** The Space Show – Tue, 03/19/2019 – 19:00Ed Wright discussed the Space Access Society and the upcoming SSI two day space settlement workshop, “SSI:50 The Space Settlement Enterprise” hosted by the Space Studies Institute.

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