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:
- Biden space:
- Organization:
- Artemis:
- The Biden administration endorses NASA’s Artemis, the Space Force | TheHill
- Biden Administration “Certainly” Supports Artemis Program – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- NASA Boss: We Have “Every Indication” That Artemis Is Safe Under Biden – Futurism.com
- Democratic Senators Urge Robust Funding For HLS While White House Punts on Artemis – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- Biden administration endorses Artemis program – Behind the Black
- So Far, Biden Administration is Vague on NASA’s Plans – MyNews13.com
- Military:
- NASA lunar programs:
- NASA management:
- Govt. launch:
- Govt. spaceports:
- Congressional space:
- Space prospects:
- Commercial space:
- ISS:
- Regulation/Spectrum:
- SpaceX Starlink:
- SpaceX Starship tests:
- Space law:
- Space traffic & environment issues:
- US states space:
- Space weather:
- US Defense space:
- Space Force Journal – The Independent Journal for the Space Force
- Q&A with Gen. Thompson, Vice Chief of Space Operations – National Defense Magazine
- Analysis: Small but mighty Space Force is no joke – gazette.com
- Army, Navy Funds Unlikely For Space Force Until 2023 – Breaking Defense
- Space Force eyes closer ties with civil space: ’It’s good for taxpayers’ – SpaceNews
- DoD Faces Tough Decisions On Space Rules – Breaking Defense
- Biden and military space:
- Technology:
- Acquisition:
International space
- Australia:
- Brazil:
- Canada:
- China:
- Europe
- India:
- Gaganyaan astronauts may splash off Gujarat coast after space flight – Times of India
- Budget 2021-22 prioritises Gaganyaan, India’s human spaceflight mission, over all others — here’s why | Business Insider India
- Isro to help Skyroot to build its small rocket – The Economic Times
- ISRO to launch iBrazilian, Indian startup satellite in first mission of 2021 – Livemint.com
- Iran:
- Japan:
- Kuwait:
- Russia:
- UAE
- UAE Space Agency announces 10 winners to join Arab Space Pioneers Programme – SatellitePro ME
- UAE’s Mars probe ‘Hope’ to be 1st Arab space mission, 5th to reach Red Planet | The Times of Israel
- US-UAE space cooperation a ‘win-win’, says Business Council president – Arabianbusiness
- UAE Hope Probe ‘already a success’ before reaching Mars | Arab News
- UK:
Webcasts:
** China Aero & Space Weekly News Round-Up – Episode 18 (25th – 31st Jan. 2021) – Dongfang Hour – YouTube
1) News of Geely’s satellite constellation (and Qingdao Shanghe Aerospace Technology) …
2) Carbon fiber cryogenic tank for liquid oxygen (CALT) …
3) Article from MacroPolo about Rising Stars in China’s Political Hierarchy…
4) HNA Group enters bankruptcy restructuring…
(For a summary of the episodes, see #SpaceWatchGL Column: Dongfang Hour China Aerospace News Roundup 25 Jan – 31 Jan 2021 – SpaceWatch.Global.)
** Hotel Mars (joint production of the John Batchelor Show/The Space Show) Wed. Feb.3.2021 – William Harwood of CBS Space News discussed “the planned Feb. 18, 2021 landing of Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover. Bill talked about the mission, the risky landing, the instruments and more.”
** The Space Show – Friday, Feb.5.2021 – Dr. Pekka Janhunem talked about “his paper about a large scale free space settlement in orbit around Ceres“. Terraforming the dwarf planet: Interconnected and growable Ceres megasatellite world – arxiv.org (pdf)
** The Space Show – Tuesday, Feb.2.2021 – Dr. Greg Autry “summarized the space accomplishments of the last four years, then looked ahead to space policy and plans in the coming administrations. Dr. Autry suggested the Artemis program and The Artemis Accords would continue, he explained why the Moon was so important and much more.”
** New podcast episode: entering the Space Station era – ESA
** E50 – Rethinking Capability Development on Vimeo – Aerospace Corp – Center for Space Policy & Strategy (CSPS)
** Space Café WebTalk – Mahmoud Abu Wasel – 12. January 2021 – spacewatch. global – News Room – YouTube
In this week’s Space Cafè WebTalk, Mahmoud Abu Wasel, Vice-President of The Hague Institute for Global Justice talked about the new space initiative of the institute.
** Space Café WebTalk – BLACK OPS by Ralph Thiele – Edition 2 – 14. January 2021 – spacewatch. global – News Room – YouTube
In this Space Cafè “Black Ops by Ralph Thiele #2”, Colonel (Ret`d) Ralph Thiele, Chairman of the Berlin based Political-Military Society, President of Euro Défense-Germany, and Managing Director of StratByrd Consulting, Germany talked with his guests about the Implication for Security & Defence coming with quantum technologies.
His guests in this session were:
Dr. Ing. Heike Poignand,
Prof. Dr. Dr. José Achache.
They also answered relevant questions from the audience.
** February 3, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
** February 5, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
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