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:
- NASA Management:
- NASA lunar programs:
- US space goals:
- NASA planetary programs:
- Congressional space:
- Lawmakers ask Biden administration to keep oversight committees in the loop on space activities – SpaceNews
- Florida Reps. Posey & Crist Reintroduce The American Space Commerce Act | Congressman Bill Posey
- Congressmen Posey and Crist push to keep launch business in the U.S. – Florida Today
- Bill Posey, Charlie Crist try again to launch American Space Commerce Act – Florida Politics
- SLS/Orion:
- NASA human spaceflight:
- Commercial space:
- ISS:
- Regulation – spectrum, export control, launch, etc:
- Putting the SpaceX-FAA dispute in context – The Space Review
- Dish tries to disrupt SpaceX’s Starlink plans as companies fight at FCC | Ars Technica
- Elon Musk’s Starlink takes the fight to Dish Network over broadband concerns – Teslarati
- SpaceX: DOJ hiring subpoena is ‘definition of government overreach’ – CNBC
- Space law:
- Space Café Russia Recap: Dr Olga Volynskaya on the painstaking work on putting space law into practice – SpaceWatch.Global
- Moon Wars: Legal Trouble in Space and Moon Law, Capt. Bryant A. Mishima-Baker – The Reporter/Air Force JAG (pdf)
- Op-ed | Representing the private astronaut is a new step for human spaceflight — and for space lawyers – SpaceNews
- The Game Has Changed: Why We Need New Rules for Space Exploration – SingularityHub.com
- Space traffic & environment issues:
- US states space:
- Andrew Crider column: Success for Rocket Lab could be a huge win for Virginia – richmond.com
- FAA announces delay in spaceport decisions – Tribune-Georgian.com
- Bill Posey, Charlie Crist try again to launch American Space Commerce Act – Florida Politics
- Florida may force the public to turn in fallen spacecraft parts or face jail time – Orlando Sentinel
- Musk Floats ‘Starbase’ Name Change for Texas Launch Town – Bloomberg
- With ‘Starbase’ and a new Starlink factory, Musk deepens foray into Texas – The Verge
- SpaceX building Starlink manufacturing factory in Austin, Texas – CNBC
- Weather & remote sensing satellites:
- US Defense space:
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- Raymond: Space Force ‘not a political issue’ – SpaceNews
- Space Force sounds like a joke thanks to pop culture – that could be a problem for an important military branch – The Conversation
- Space Force chief says he’s working on a declassification strategy, but offers scant details – CRISRnet.com
- Don’t move US Space Command – The Space Review
- Biden and military space:
- Cyber-security:
- Launch:
- Technology:
- DoD space agency to award multiple contracts for up to 150 satellites – SpaceNews
- Space Development Agency experiment to fly on Northrop Grumman’s capsule to space station – SpaceNews
- Air Force looking for 5G in space – FedScoop.com
- AFRL, NORTHCOM Eye Commercial Internet Sats For Arctic – Breaking Defense
- NGA warns U.S. lead in geospatial intelligence is being challenged – SpaceNews
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International space
- Canada:
- China:
- Space program heroine sees no end to interstellar quests – SHINE News
- China preparing to build Tiangong station in 2021, complete by 2022 – NASASpaceFlight.com
- Space Café WebTalk Recap: How a business and space analyst from Chicago became the “China Space Guy” -Blaine Curcio – SpaceWatch.Global
- China to promote application of Beidou Navigation Satellite System – Xinhua
- China’s Tianwen-1 probe to land on Mars in May or June – Xinhua
- Costa Rica:
- Germany:
- India:
- Indonesia:
- Russia:
- ISS air leaks:
- ISS Crew Seals Off First Air Leak in Russia’s Zvezda Module – Sputnik International
- Cosmonauts register air pressure drop in orbital outpost’s compartment with air leak – TASS
- Russian cosmonauts to spend five days to seal fracture aboard orbital outpost – TASS
- Russian cosmonaut to patch crack in Zvezda module aboard orbital outpost – TASS
- Roscosmos discusses configuration, orbit of new orbital station, CEO says – TASS
- Development of Angara-A3 medium-class rocket possible, but not obvious – Roscosmos – TASS
- Vostochny spaceport to start building infrastructure for crewed launches in 2025 – TASS
- Progress cargo ship delivers Russian food for NASA astronaut to ISS – TASS
- Russian scientists create meteor communications system for Arctic – TASS
- Russia embarks on project of first Venus mission since Soviet era – TASS
- ISS air leaks:
- South Korea:
- Switzerland:
- UK:
Webcasts:
** Jielong-3 rocket to launch in 2022, QS-T raises 100M¥ of funding – China Space News Roundup Ep 23 – Dongfang Hour – YouTube
1) Qiansheng Exploration (QS-T) Announces RMB 100M+ Series A Round …
2) Jielong-3 to make its maiden launch in 2022 …
3) An interesting piece by the Beijing Daily on Beijing’s commercial space ecosystem …
See also the show summary: Dongfang Hour China Aerospace News Roundup 1 – 7 March 2021 – SpaceWatch.Global
** Space Café WebTalk – Dr. Marco Ferrazzani – 2. February 2021 – spacewatch. global – News Room – YouTube
In this week’s Space Cafè WebTalk, Dr. Marco Ferrazzani, Chief of Legal services at the European Space Agency, Paris, France talked about legal considerations on Europe in space.
We discussed the following topics of current interest in European space:
the current state of legal competences in the European landscape ,
ESA for the EU space programme – institutional cooperation and coordination, with an outlook on the FFPA negotiations,
an ever more competitive European space industry – how law and regulations sustain innovation and foster competition,
European exploration: how ESA and NASA team up on the way “Forward to the Moon”, sustained by law and international commitments.
Dr. Marco Ferrazzani also answered relevant questions from the audience.
** The Space Show – Friday , Mar.5.2021 – Dr. Clive Neal discussed “the Moon, lunar water and resources, policy, China, lunar exploration, settlement, Mars and lots more“.
** The Space Show – Thursday, Mar.4.2021 – James Burk discussed the Mars Society project MarsVR.
** The Space Show – Tuesday, Mar.2.2021 – Dr. Christopher Morrison provided “news and updates about nuclear power in space. We focused nuclear power for surface usage plus propulsion.”
** March 3, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
https://audioboom.com/posts/7814976
https://audioboom.com/posts/7814978
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