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 lunar programs:
- NASA, Rocket Lab move first Artemis Moon launch – CAPSTONE – to New Zealand – NASASpaceFlight.com
- Artemis human landing system selection:
- Biden space:
- Commercial Cargo & Crew:
- Boeing Starliner uncrewed test mission:
- NASA, Boeing Continue to Work Toward Understanding Starliner Service Module Valve Performance Issue – Commercial Crew Program/NASA
- Boeing Starliner Returned to Vertical Integration Facility for Testing – Commercial Crew Program/NASA
- Starliner delayed again, and its launch window may close soon | Ars Technica
- NASA, Boeing Continue Starliner Data Analysis – Commercial Crew Program/NASA
- Boeing Starliner launch to space station on extended hold after valve problem – CBS News
- Boeing Starliner uncrewed test mission:
- US and China in space:
- US and Russia in space:
- NASA science programs:
- TESS considering companion smallsat mission – SpaceNews
- James Webb Space Telescope (JWST):
- Space technology:
- ISS & other space stations:
- Commercial space:
- Suborbital:
- GEO:
- Human spaceflight/Space tourism:
- Regulation – spectrum, export control, launch, etc:
- Space traffic & environment issues:
- Clearing the heavens of space junk – CBS News
- Orbital debris removal:
- US states space:
- California:
- New Mexico:
- Georgia spaceport at Camden County:
- Texas:
- W. Virginia:
- GPS:
- US Defense space:
- On National Security | How Space Force learned to worry about its culture of secrecy – SpaceNews
- SPACECOM Head Touts Space, High Seas Parallels – Breaking Defense
- Space transport:
- Tory Bruno says the challenges with BE-4 are real but the engine is moving forward – SpaceNews
- Blue Origin’s powerful BE-4 engine is more than four years late—here’s why | Ars Technica
- Launch Program Leveraging Recycled Rockets – National Defense Magazine
- Air Force Space Plane Wings Past 445 days in Earth Orbit – Leonard David
- Reconnaissance:
- Satellites:
- Technology:
- General space policy topics, perspectives, resources, etc:
- Now someone wants to slap a SPACE Tax on Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, et al | The Hill
- International Collaboration in Space: Doorway to a Wiser Humanity – The Mars Society
- Review: America’s New Destiny in Space – The Space Review
- FREE Hard Copies of Handbook for New Actors in Space Available to Educational Institutions | Secure World
- SWF August Newsletter – Secure World
International space
- South America:
- Australia:
- I’m training to become Australia’s first woman astronaut. Here’s what it takes – The Conversation
- Southern Launch on its way to launch from Whalers Way in Australia – SpaceWatch.Global
- Your chance to support South Australia’s Rocket Launch Future — Southern Launch
- Australia’s first space accelerator to showcase startups amid expansion plans – SpaceNews
- Canada:
- China:
- Space station:
- Lunar missions:
- Launch:
- Europe:
- France:
- India:
- Japan:
- New Zealand:
- Russia:
- New details of Russian “movie in space” emerge as producers seek funding – SpaceNews
- Launch:
- Tourism:
- ISS:
- Space Station Incident Demands Independent Investigation – IEEE Spectrum
- Inside the Dangerous Consequences of Russia’s Space Screwups – The Daily Beast
- Russia’s Prichal Module: New Addition to International Space Station – Leonard David
- NASA, Russia stress that space partnership remains strong after Nauka incident at space station | Space.com
- Nauka module docking incident caused by guidance algorithms — Roscosmos – TASS
- Orbital outpost undamaged in incident with Nauka module docking — Roscosmos – TASS
- Russian cosmonauts to make two spacewalks in September – TASS
- Russia’s new space research lab to more than double experiments in orbit – TASS
- New space stations:
- Saudi Arabia:
- Singapore:
- Slovakia:
- Taiwan:
- UAE
- UK:
Webcasts:
** Chinese Commercial “SAR Wars” Rages, iSpace Fails Hyperbola-1 Y3 Launch, Nebula-M Rocket First Hop – Dongfang Hour – YouTube
Hello and welcome to another episode of the Dongfang Hour China Space News Roundup! A kind reminder that we cover a lot more stories every week in our Newsletter (newsletter.dongfanghour.com).
See also the summary at Dongfang Hour China Aerospace News Roundup 2 – 8 August 2021 – SpaceWatch.Global.
** Alan Stern says it’s time for suborbital science – The Planetary Society
An experiment rode next to Richard Branson when he rocketed to the edge of space on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo last month. Planetary scientist Alan Stern says we’ve begun a new era of affordable space research thanks to this vehicle and Blue Origin’s New Shepard. Alan also delivers an update on the New Horizons mission, including a new, definitive collection of everything we’ve learned about Pluto. Then it’s Olympic gold for Bruce Betts in our weekly What’s Up segment.
** Everything You Need to Know about the Chinese Space Station – Dongfang Hour – YouTube
China has been swiftly assembling its Chinese space station, basically a large 60+ tons space laboratory that will be orbiting the Earth at an altitude of 350-450 km. Over the period 2021-2022 alone, 11 launches will take place, sending 3 core modules of the space station as well as 4 crewed missions (Shenzhou) and 4 cargo missions (Tianzhou). But did you know that China’s crewed spaceflight projects date all the way back to the 1960s? In the episode, we cover “everything you need to know” about the Chinese Space Station, from a historical perspective to a detailed timeline of the station assembly. All the essentials of the CSS should be covered here, but we will have other dedicated episodes to decipher more specific technical details and features of the space station.
** Listen: How outer space is reshaping Texas real estate – Houston Chronicle
** The Space Show – Sunday, Aug.8.2021 – Open lines program with David Livingston discussing a range of topics with listeners and callers. “One key topic was the growth of naysayers about commercial space, tourism and such. Many callers on this topic, suggestions for a debate and possible guest suggestions.”
** The Space Show – Tuesday, Aug.3.2021 – Dr. Pat Patterson of Utah State Univ. spoke about the SmallSat Conference for 2021.
** E69: Evolving the AF Academy for Space Force Needs – Aerospace Corp Space Policy (Vimeo) – Center for Space Policy & Strategy (CSPS)
** Space Café WebTalk – REGIONAL RUSSIA – 4. June 2021 – spacewatch. global – News Room – YouTube
Elina Morozova in conversation with Dr Viсtor Strelets, a high-caliber expert in the field of radio frequencies and satellite orbits with 40-years’ practical experience, including within the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), regional telecommunications organizations, and the telecommunications administration of the Russian Federation.
Viсtor Strelets has dealt for the last 40 years with various aspects of managing the orbit and frequency resource. Having defended a dissertation on the international legal protection of frequency assignments to space services and systems, Dr Strelets gained hands-on experience and industry knowledge in Russian civil service and at specialized international fora. This includes ITU Plenipotentiary Conferences, World Radiocommunication Conferences, and the Radio Regulations Board which was earlier chaired by Dr Strelets. …
** August 6, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast – Behind The Black/Robert Zimmerman
** August 4, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast – Behind The Black/Robert Zimmerman
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