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Space policy roundup – July.12.2021

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):

International space

Webcasts:

** China Performs Spacewalk at the Chinese Space Station, Plethora of Launches in a Single Week – Ep 41 – 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).

This week, we discuss:
1) China’s 1st EVA with Tianhe (and 2nd ever Chinese EVA)
2) A Plethora of launches in a Single Week
3) Guangzhou & Tianjin Add Satellite Internet to their Development Plans

A summary of the program is provided here: Dongfang Hour China Aerospace News Roundup 5 July – 11 July 2021 – SpaceWatch.Global.

** Episode 42 – What is Going on With This Idea of Space Pollution – Space Thoughts (YouTube) – Space Law & Policy Solutions/Michael Listner

** T+193: Marcia Smith, SpacePolicyOnline.com – Main Engine Cut Off

Marcia Smith of SpacePolicyOnline.com joins me for a round up of space policy news, including how the Biden and Nelson administrations are doing so far, things that are being overlooked or sidelined, the Senate’s NASA Authorization bill, NASA’s Human Landing System contract and the battle for funding, the space tourism learning period, and we finish with a quick look at what China and Russia have been up to lately.

** The Space Cafe Podcast #31: Ian Carnelli, Preparing for the worst – SpaceWatch.Global

Episode 031 features a special guest Ian Carnelli. Next year, a small spacecraft will head for the double asteroid Didymos to slam into it with its brakes off. The name of the mission gives free rein to the imagination: Planetary Defense Mission. It is a joint mission between ESA and NASA, and it wants to test for the first time what has long been a topic in science fiction: can a deadly chunk of rock be deflected from its collision course with the earth or is a second event that took away the dinosaurs only a matter of time? The Planetary Defense Mission will find an answer. Whether it is the one we would like remains to be seen. Mission Director Ian Carnelli paints a fascinating picture of this unique mission.

** Space Policy and History Forum: The History and Politics of Space Junk – NASA Video

The exponential rise in debris cluttering Earth orbits poses formidable technical, political, financial, and legal challenges, from threatening satellites and space stations to impacting Earth to potentially provoking international conflict. How is the space debris situation evolving? Who is responsible for the management of Earth orbit? How should we approach debris removal and growth mitigation? Can the history of orbital debris help us achieve a safe and sustainable future in space? Join the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum and NASA for a virtual Space Policy and History Forum featuring a panel discussion on the politics of orbital debris within a historical context. Panelists include: • Jonathan McDowell, Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics • Lisa Ruth Rand, Assistant Professor of History, California Institute of Technology • Gabriel Swiney, Attorney Advisor, International Space Lawyer, U.S. State Department Moderated by Bhavya Lal, Senior Advisor for Budget and Finance, NASA.

** The Space Show – Friday, July.9.2021 – Dr. Matthew Weinzierl, a Harvard space economist, discussed “commercial space through the eyes of an economist”. See the paper, The Commercial Space Age Is Here – Harvard Business Review by Matt Weinzierl and Mehak Sarang.

** Hotel Mars: – The John Batchelor Show/The Space Show – Wed. July.7.2021 – Leonard David talked with John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston about the upcoming Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin suborbital spaceflights and about space tourism in general

** The Space Show – Tuesday, July.6.2021 – Aaron Bateman spoke about “national space security issues and history“.

** Registering Lunar Activities – Moon Dialogs Salon #14 – Moon Dialogs

This salon was part of our Sustainable Moon series and features the first public workshop of The Registration Project and featured a number of space law experts. The Registration Project was launched to address the shortcomings of existing law and practice regarding registration as humankind returns to the Moon. The Project is a joint venture of the Moon Village Association (MVA) and the Global Space Law Center (GSLC) at Cleveland State University.

** Insight – 3rd Summit for Space Sustainability | Secure World

** Space Café WebTalk – Katherine Courtney – 18. May 2021 – spacewatch. global – News Room – YouTube

During this week’s Space Café, SpaceWatch.Global publisher Torsten Kriening met with space strategist and former Chief Executive for the UK Space Agency, Katherine Courtney, to discuss space sustainability and her role as founder of education charity PrimarySpace.

Katherine is the current strategic adviser for Arqit, an encryption platform based in London. She was previously the regulator for UK License Space Operations and has worked with organisations such as Avascent, the Global Network on Sustainability in Space and MULTIPLY Space to create clear strategies, manage risks and multiply returns on innovation investment; bring government, researchers and businesses together to apply innovation to key policy aims; and support start-ups to scale-up.

This week, she and Torsten discuss the biggest risk of all – what will our contemporary use of space mean for future generations, and are we sleepwalking into the next catastrophe?

** Operating in a new space age: Does space security matter to industry?  Space Court Foundation – YouTube

** July 7, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman

** July 9, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast – Behind The Black – Robert Zimmerman

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The Space Show this week – July.12.2021

The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week:

1. Tuesday, July.13, 2021; 7 pm PDT (9 pm CDT, 10 pm EDT): We welcome back Dr. Bruce Damer with Co-host John Jossy. Bruce will be discussing his SHEPHERD Project and more. For more information see the blog link posted by Mr. Jossy.

2. Wednesday, July. 14, 2021: Hotel Mars  – Kim Holder will talk with John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston about the Moonwards project.

3. Friday, July.16, 2021; 9:30-11 am PDT (11:30 am-1 pm CDT, 12:30-2 pm EDT): We welcome back John Strickland who will go over his two newest books with us and talk about the latest in policy and missions and how to carry them out.

4. Sunday, July.18, 2021; 12-1:30 pm PDT (3-4:30 pm EDT, 2-3:30 pm CDT): We welcome back Christopher Stone on national security space. We will be examining the issues, providing analysis and looking forward with commercial space, the new administration and the space business community.

Some recent shows:

**  Sunday, July.11.2021 – Shey Sabripour talked about satellite telecommunications and CesiumAstro‘s phased array technology, now ready for launch.

** Friday, July.9.2021 – Dr. Matthew Weinzierl, a Harvard space economist, discussed “commercial space through the eyes of an economist”. See the paper, The Commercial Space Age Is Here – Harvard Business Review by Matt Weinzierl and Mehak Sarang.

** Hotel Mars: – The John Batchelor Show/The Space Show – Wed. July.7.2021 – Leonard David talked with John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston about the upcoming Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin suborbital spaceflights and about space tourism in general

** Tuesday, July.6.2021 – Aaron Bateman spoke about “national space security issues and history“.

** Hotel Mars – The John Batchelor Show/The Space Show – Wed. June.30.2021 – Dr. Jackie Faherty spoke with John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston about “Past, present and future star systems looking at Earth as a transiting planet over time plus the ESA GAIA orbiting observatory and data files“.

** See also:
* The Space Show Archives
* The Space Show Newsletter
* The Space Show Shop

The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.

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Videos: “Space to Ground” + Other ISS reports – July.9.2021

Here is the latest episode in NASA’s Space to Ground weekly report on activities related to the International Space Station:

** Watch SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon fly away from space station after undocking – VideoFromSpace

SpaceX’s CRS-22 cargo spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station on July 8, 2021. It is scheduled to splashdown off the coast of Florida on July 9.

** Expedition 65 SpaceX CRS 22 Undocking – July 8, 2021 – NASA Video

Loaded with scientific experiments and supplies, the unpiloted SpaceX CRS-22 cargo ship undocked from the International Space Station July 8, completing a month-long resupply mission to the outpost. With NASA Flight Engineer Shane Kimbrough looking on, the SpaceX spacecraft undocked from the space-facing port of the Harmony module, headed for a splashdown in the Atlantic to complete its month-long flight. SpaceX CRS-22 launched last month, delivering several tons of experiments and hardware to the station, including the first pair of ISS Roll Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) that were installed on the port truss of the complex during three spacewalks to augment the station’s power output.

** European Robotic Arm ready for space – European Space Agency, ESA

The European Robotic Arm (ERA) will be launched to the International Space Station together with the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module, called ‘Nauka’. ERA is the first robot able to ‘walk’ around the Russian segment of the Space Station. It has the ability to anchor itself to the Station and move back and forward by itself, hand-over-hand between fixed base-points. This 11-metre intelligent space robot will serve as main manipulator on the Russian part of the Space Station, assisting the astronauts during spacewalks. The robot arm can help install, deploy and replace elements in outer space ERA is 100% made-in-Europe. A consortium of European companies led by Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands designed and assembled it for ESA. The robotic arm is largely funded by the Dutch government.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/EuropeanRoboticArm

** Science so cool it is freezing! – European Space Agency, ESA

Interviews with the “Cold Stowage” team at @NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, that ensure science on the International Space Station stays cool. Many experiments run on the Space Station require freezing samples for analysis later on Earth, or are sent into space frozen and thawed out in orbit. The European-built MELFI (Minus Eighty Lab Freezer for ISS) keeps these samples at the right temperature. From a virus to algae or muscle biopsies, many samples have been sent and stored in space over a decade years that the freezers have been operating. The technology behind keeping the science cool in space has found its way back to Earth too, limiting losses when transporting liquid gas in tankers. Built by ESA and transferred to NASA and @JAXA | 宇宙航空研究開発機構, MELFI is a versatile storage freezer. The four compartments can be set at different temperatures ranging from −98 °C to +4 °C to preserve biological samples such as blood and urine that will be returned to Earth. …

** Expedition 65 WFLA – July 8, 2021  – NASA Video

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 65 Flight Engineers Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA discussed life and work on the complex and the view of the Earth from orbit during an in-flight interview July 8 with WFLA-TV, Tampa, Florida. The two astronauts launched in April on the SpaceX Crew Dragon “Endeavour” for a planned six-month mission.

** China conducts first spacewalk outside new space station! See the highlights – VideoFromSpace

Chinese astronauts Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo performed a spacewalk outside the space station core module Tianhe on July 4, 2021. Full Story: https://www.space.com/china-space-sta... The spacewalkers installed foot restraints and an extravehicular working platform on the mechanical arm,” according to the China Manned Space Agency.

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The Space Show this week – July.5.2021

The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week:

1. Tuesday, July. 6, 2021; 7 pm PDT (9 pm CDT, 10 pm EDT): We welcome AAron Bateman for a different perspective on national security space.

2. Wednesday, July. 7, 2021: Hotel Mars TBA pre-recorded. See upcoming show menu on the home page for program details.

3. Friday, July.9, 2021; 9:30-11 am PDT (11:30 am-1 pm CDT, 12:30-2 pm EDT): We welcome Dr. Matthew Weinzierl, Harvard Space Economist to discuss space economics.

4. Sunday, July.11, 2021; 12-1:30 pm PDT (3-4:30 pm EDT, 2-3:30 pm CDT): We welcome Shey Sabripour, CEO of CesiumAstro to discuss their phased array technology soon to be launched and cutting-edge active phased array payloads and software-defined systems featuring a plug-and-play, Lego-like platform.

Some recent shows:

** Friday, July 2, 2021 – John Bucknell discussed “new SSP commercial venture, Virtus Solis Technologies, SSP R&D, SSP commercial readiness, markets, competition, manufacturing on Earth versus on orbit or on the Moon, cislunar development, SSP financing, nuclear energy alternatives.”

** Tuesday, June.29.2021 – Alfred Anzaldua discussed “space debris, problem solving, and suggested solutions“.

** See also:
* The Space Show Archives
* The Space Show Newsletter
* The Space Show Shop

The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.

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Activism, Roundup

Space policy roundup – July.5.2021

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):

International space

Webcasts:

** Episode 41: What’s Hot 2nd Quarter 2021 – Space Thoughts (YouTube) – Space Law & Policy Solutions/Michael Listner

** Operating in a new space age: Does space security matter to industry? – Space Court Foundation – YouTube

** New Footage from Chinese MARS Rover, Nebula M Static Fire Test, Landspace Completes Rocket Factory – 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). This week, we discuss:

1) China’s Zhurong Mars Rover Sends Back Additional Footage
2) LandSpace Completes the First Phase of the Its Small and Medium Rocket Factory in Jiaxing (and article by GoTaikonauts! : https://www.thespacereview.com/articl…)
3) Deep Blue Aerospace Prepares Static Fire Test for the Nebula M Demonstrato
4) Multiple Satellites Launched On-Board Long March 2D

** Deep Dive into China’s Space Station Cameras & Relay Satellites – Dongfang Hour – YouTube

Welcome to the Dongfang Hour (literally “Eastern Hour”)! This episode is an experiment with trying something shorter, less “news-like” and more on the entertaining side of things, to complement our weekly news updates. This episode was inspired from a Chinese media article (https://www.sohu.com/a/474392163_1001…), from which I added some addition facts, thoughts, and visuals. Credits of the footage are from: CCTV, CASC, ESA, NASA.

** The Space Show – Friday, July 2, 2021 – John Bucknell discussed “new SSP commercial venture, Virtus Solis Technologies, SSP R&D, SSP commercial readiness, markets, competition, manufacturing on Earth versus on orbit or on the Moon, cislunar development, SSP financing, nuclear energy alternatives.”

** The Space Show – Tuesday, June.29.2021 – Alfred Anzaldua discussed “space debris, problem solving, and suggested solutions“.

** Protecting Critical Information, Contracting with DoD and CMMC – the New Paradigm for Both – Constellations Podcast

In this Constellations Podcast episode, we’ll discuss what the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, otherwise known as CMMC, is and how it will change the requirements for contracting with the DoD. The recent spate of data breaches affecting both government and commercial organizations underscores the need for more robust security measures to protect critical information. For DoD, this means increased protection of FCI and CUI data. CMMC will be a critical component of heightened security as all companies will need to pass strict CMMC security assessments before being awarded DoD contracts. During this episode, Justin Padilla, Director, Cybersecurity Services, Kratos will explain what CUI, FCI mean and how they will all be affected by CMMC. He’ll discuss how companies will need to be assessed by a Third-Party Assessment Organization – a C3PAO. As Kratos is one of the first C3PAOs to be authorized, Justin can break down the whole process for you.

** June 30, 2021 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast

** Space Café WebTalk – REGIONAL Canada – 7. May 2021 – spacewatch. global – News Room – YouTube

Space Café Canada is hosted by our friend Dr. Jessica West, a Senior Researcher at the Canadian peace and security research institute, Project Ploughshares.

Does space need more Canada?

Her first guest was Dr. David Kendall. Dr. Kendall is a remarkable leader in the space community both here in Canada and internationally. He culminated a long career at the Canadian Space Agency as its Director-General. He represented Canada at the United Nations, specifically at the Committee for the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space as a delegate, then Head of Delegation, and between 2016 and 2018 as Chair of the Committee. Recently he is a founding member of the Outer Space Institute at the University of British Columbia. And throughout he has been an active member of the International Space University, having just been awarded the position of Faculty Emeritus following more than thirty years of service.

Canada has a long history as a spacefaring nation, but whether it will lead to a new era of space activity is not clear. Together, Jessica and David explore the question of whether space needs more Canada.

Canada’s lagging legacy in space
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** E66: Force Design – Lessons from the Marine Corps – Aerospace Corp Space Policy (Vimeo) – Center for Space Policy & Strategy (CSPS)

** Protecting Critical Information, Contracting with DoD and CMMC – the New Paradigm for Both – Constellations Podcast

In this Constellations Podcast episode, we’ll discuss what the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, otherwise known as CMMC, is and how it will change the requirements for contracting with the DoD. The recent spate of data breaches affecting both government and commercial organizations underscores the need for more robust security measures to protect critical information. For DoD, this means increased protection of FCI and CUI data. CMMC will be a critical component of heightened security as all companies will need to pass strict CMMC security assessments before being awarded DoD contracts. During this episode, Justin Padilla, Director, Cybersecurity Services, Kratos will explain what CUI, FCI mean and how they will all be affected by CMMC. He’ll discuss how companies will need to be assessed by a Third-Party Assessment Organization – a C3PAO. As Kratos is one of the first C3PAOs to be authorized, Justin can break down the whole process for you.

** National Space Society‘s International Space Development Conference 2021 – June 24-27, 2021. There were many space policy related talks and panels and most of these are available in the videos below from the first three days. See the YouTube captions or the ISDC Schedule to select sessions of interest.

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