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:
- NASA HSF:
- Artemis lunar program:
- NASA report outlines vision for long-term human lunar exploration – SpaceNews.com
- NASA’s Plan for Sustained Lunar Exploration and Development – NASA (pdf)
- NASA Releases Plan for Sustainable Lunar Operations – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- Here are 10 alternative ideas for what NASA could do with its Moon budget | Ars Technica
- Commercial crew:
- Space traffic:
- Planetary defense:
- Space regulation:
- US military:
- Communications constellation:
- Space Force:
- Space Force report on acquisition reforms awaiting final reviews – SpaceNews.com
- U.S. Air Force to transfer 23 units to the Space Force – SpaceNews.com
- Space Force Moving Ahead “Full Speed” Despite the Coronavirus – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- Early Space Force missions will be less exotic than you’re imagining – HoustonChronicle.com
- Top enlisted leader Towberman officially joins the U.S. Space Force – SpaceNews.com
- Space threats:
- New studies show growing proliferation of anti-satellite weapons – SpaceNews.com
- Growth of Space Threats Detailed in Two New Reports – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- Space Threat Report: Making Space More Defendable – Leonard David
- Space Threat Assessment 2020 – Center for Strategic & International Studies (pdf)
- Commercial resources:
- International space
- Armenia:
- China:
- Japan:
- Russia:
- Taiwan:
- UAE:
- UK:
- Venezuela:
Webcasts:
** Space Café WebTalk Recap: “33 minutes with Moriba Jah” – SpaceWatch.Global
The inaugural Space Café WebTalk happened on 31 March 2020, featuring Professor Moriba Jah, associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin, in conversation with Torsten Kriening, co-publisher of SpaceWatch.Global and COO of ThorGroup GmbH.
Professor Jah opened the event with an interesting, thorough discource on the topic of space situational awareness, covering points recently discussed in his SWGL op-ed, Orbital Space – The Next Resource For Humanity To Exhaustively Exploit And Litter!, published last month.
** Hotel Mars/The Space Show – Wed, 04/01/2020 – John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston spoke with Chris Carberry of the Explore Mars about the organizations” events and programming during the COVID-19 outbreak”.
** The Space Show – Tue, 03/31/2020 – Rod Pyle talked about “trends, post virus space industry and many other topics based on callers and listener emails”/
** Hotel Mars/The Space Show – Thu, 03/26/2020 – John Batchelor and David Livingston discussed the impact of Covid-19 on the space industry.
** March 31, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black
** March 27, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black
** April 2, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black
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