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Space policy roundup – Sept.28.2020

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:

** The Space Show – Sun. Sept.27.2020Dr. Keith Crane talked about space economics and the Institute for Defense Analysis report, Measuring the Space Economy: Estimating the Value of Economic Activities in and for Space.

** E34 – Satellite Spectrum – Regulation and Management of a Finite Resource (w Karen Jones and Tom Stroup)Aerospace Corp – Center for Space Policy & Strategy (CSPS}

** The Space Show – Tues. Sept.22.2020Dr. Les Johnson talked about “solar sails, propulsion, interstellar flight, human spaceflight and his edited book, Stellaris: People of the Stars[Amazon commission link]”.

** NASA Administrator Discusses Collaboration with US Space Force – NASA

The Mitchell Institute hosted the Space Power Forum with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and Chief of Space Operations General Jay Raymond on Tuesday, September 22. The space domain is as vitally important to U.S. defense as it is to its scientific and commercial interests, and the establishment of the U.S. Space Force (USSF) raises big questions with implications for all. This conversation with the leaders of NASA and the USSF explored how they intend to collaboratively tackle shared challenges in space, their respective mission requirements, and opportunities to leverage commercial capabilities and innovation.

** The Space Economy with Dr. Sandy Magnus – 7Investing

In this exclusive interview with 7investing, Dr. Magnus shares her thoughts about the new “space economy”. She also discusses what technologies will be most-needed for off-world colonization and describes several things that people interested in this space should have on their radar.

** September 23, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black

** September 25, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast – Behind the Black

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Space policy roundup – Sept.21.2020

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:

** Space Café Podcast Episode 011 Featuring Sara Langston Is Now Available – SpaceWatch.Global

Sara Langston teaches at the time-honored Embry Riddle flight school and knows what astronauts had to endure before they were allowed into orbit. But many things change. Not only the attitude of the students when it comes to challenging subjects. The whole industry is breaking new ground. In this episode Sara succeeds in a tour de force through a number of fascinating topics: Is it allowed to buy land on the moon, is ethics an obstacle or the future of research and why is space law the best subject in the world?

** The Rise of China in SpaceNewsthink

** The Space Show – Tues. Sept.15.2020Dr. Ajay Kothari of Astrox Corp discussed “his plans for getting to the lunar surface post pandemic”.

**The Space Show – Fri. Sept.18.2020 –  Dr. Peter Hague  discussed his “new metric system for measuring the quality, effectiveness, economics of space programs based on mass”. See Hague’s paper, A Metric of Solar System Development.

 

** Sun. Sept.20.2020Wayne White, founder and CEO of SpaceBooster LLC, talked about his Space Pioneer Act for space property rights and more

** E32 – Integrating Space into Joint Warfighting Analysis (w Russell Rumbaugh and special guests)Aerospace Corp – Center for Space Policy & Strategy (CSPS}

** E33 – Japan’s New Space Policy – Its Intersection with Missile & Missile Defense Activity (with Sam Wilson and special guests)Aerospace Corp – Center for Space Policy & Strategy

** September 18, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black

** September 16, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black

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Space policy roundup – Sept.14.2020

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:

** Space Policy Edition: The Moon-to-Mars Strategy, with Dr. Scott Pace – The Planetary Society

The National Space Council’s Scott Pace joins the show to discuss the current administration’s whole-of-government strategy to expand humanity’s presence beyond Earth. He argues that Project Artemis naturally integrates national security, commerce, geopolitical, and exploration opportunities and generates a broad benefit to the United States, thus creating a political coalition to sustain human activity beyond Earth. Casey and Mat also discuss NASA’s announcement that it hopes to purchase commercially-collected lunar samples—the answer may not be what you think.

** NASA Asks Commercial Companies to Collect Moon Rocks – NASA

… To meet NASA’s requirements, a company will collect a small amount of Moon “dirt” or rocks from any location on the lunar surface, provide imagery to NASA of the collection and the collected material, along with data that identifies the collection location, and conduct an “in-place” transfer of ownership of the lunar regolith or rocks to NASA. After ownership transfer, the collected material becomes the sole property of NASA for our use.

NASA’s goal is that the retrieval and transfer of ownership will be completed before 2024. The solicitation creates a full and open competition, not limited to U.S. companies, and the agency may make one or more awards. The agency will determine retrieval methods for the transferred lunar regolith at a later date.

** Christopher Johnson – The Need for Engagement and Outcomes In Space Law – Cold Star Project S02E61

Space lawyer Christopher Johnson from the Secure World Foundation is back on the Cold Star Project, and we’re looking at what he has learned this year. Christopher has hosted several Moon Dialog Research Salons and gotten tremendous public input and engagement on space issues. With host Jason Kanigan, he discusses:

– What he learned from the salons – What differences he noted in platforms used, behaviors and outcomes in public engagement with actor/agency/government versus the public
– What’s needed to move forward with space law engagement and outcomes; what that looks like as you’ve seen so far, in terms of process and outcome
– Incentive versus punishment, carrot vs stick, when it comes to issues like orbital debris control: which do we need most?
– What updates do we need most to Outer Space Treaty areas?
– What are his expectations for the Summit for Space Sustainability hosted by the Secure World Foundation beginning tomorrow?

Secure World Foundation website: https://swfound.org/

** 83- The Space Force, Commercial Technology and Ground DigitizationConstellations Podcast

Listen to Doug Lamborn, U.S. Congressman, talk about partnering with commercial providers. With the government relying more on commercial to take some of the risks of Space off the shoulders of the taxpayer, it makes it a win-win situation. He describes commercial companies bringing a lot of capability, including intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance. Congressman Lamborn discusses a common digital ground infrastructure being important to unify commercial and military satellite communications capabilities. In addition, commercial industry is developing digital ground capabilities that can be further leveraged by the government, avoiding parallel investment in terminals, hardware and satellites. Finally, learn about the difference between the Space Development Agency (SDA) creating a large constellation of satellites to track missiles versus the Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) program providing global sensor coverage to detect, track and target ballistic and hypersonic missiles.

** Artemis VS Apollo: Is NASA’s Artemis program actually “sustainable?” – Everyday Astronaut

NASA’s making some big moves to finally get humans back to the moon for the first time in over 50 years. The Artemis program is shaping up with checks written and hardware built! So how does a 21st Century program to the moon compare to that of the 1960’s? In Today’s video, we’re going to answer the question, why does NASA think Artemis will be a sustainable program when SLS is sooooo dang expensive AND it’ll take at least two launches to get humans and their lunar landers to the moon…

** September 9, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black

** September 11, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black

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Space policy roundup – Sept.7.2020

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:

** Who gets to manage traffic in space? | Federal News Network

Yogi Berra would have gotten it wrong when it comes to the space surrounding Earth. It’s gotten so popular people are still flocking there. It raises serious questions: Which federal agency should take charge of space traffic management? Congress couldn’t figure that one out. So it hired the National Academy of Public Administration. For what NAPA concluded, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to study fellow and former NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe.

** Episode 23 3 Rings of U S Commercial Space Licensing Space Thoughts/Michael Listner, Space Law & Policy Solutions

** The Space Show – Tues. Sept.1.2020 – An open lines program included discussion of multiple topics “and there were two callers, Marshall and Ft. Worth John. Marshall reviewed the book “Space Is Open For Business” and more. John talked about physics, an online Cal Tech class he completed that might interest listeners plus he commented on the Mufon report of UFO sightings and why the US has so many sightings compared to the rest of the world.”

** Defending Earth! A Planetary Society Live EventPlanetary Society

Saving our planet from an asteroid strike is the only preventable major disaster. The Planetary Society reviews its work to help humankind prepare for and avoid this otherwise inevitable calamity. Planetary Radio host Mat Kaplan welcomes Chief Scientist Bruce Betts, Chief Advocate and Senior Space Policy Adviser Casey Dreier, and our special guest, Professor Amy Mainzer of the University of Arizona, Principal Investigator for the NEOWISE mission. This event was presented live on September 3, 2020.

** September 2, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black

** September 3, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black

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Space policy roundup – Aug.31.2020

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:

** E30 – Public-Private Partnerships in the Space Sector (w Karen Jones and Randy Segal) Aerospace Corp – Center for Space Policy & Strategy (CSPS)

** The Space Show – Sun. Aug.30.2020Dr. George Nield talked about developments in commercial  spaceports, markets and other commercial space topics.

** The Space Show – Fri. Aug.28.2020Mark Whittington talked about “space policy, going back to the Moon, SLS, Starship and SpaceX, China, commercial space, NASA and space budgeting plus lots more”.

** The Space Show – Tues. Aug.25.202Patrick Host discussed Tough crowd: Small launch vehicles seek niche in ultra-competitive market (pdf) written for Jane’s International Defense Review .

** Accelerating 5G, The Role of Satellites and C-Band RelocationConstellations Podcast – YouTube

Today on the Constellations podcast we will discuss the accelerated roll-out of 5G and the role of satellites in the C-band relocation effort. 5G cellular services hold the promise of connecting everything, everyone and unleashing massive amounts of bandwidth for new and innovative applications. To drive America’s leadership in 5G, the FCC is accelerating the roll-out by repurposing the C-band spectrum, which is thought to be optimal for 5G services. Intelsat is one of the satellite operators that has used the entire band and now has agreed to mobilize its operations to promptly relocate to a different portion of the band in support of the 5G roll-out. To tackle this unprecedented and challenging transition plan, Intelsat has put together a team of more than 50 employees focused on this complex clearing initiative. The team is working to successfully and quickly transition current users, while maintaining high-quality, uninterrupted broadcast to more than 100 million American homes and businesses. Intelsat also plans to build and launch multiple new satellites to replace C-band capacity being transitioned to 5G cellular network services. With us today to shed some light on their C-band relocation plan is Tom McNamara, Vice President of C-Band Transition Management for Intelsat. Tom has over 20 years of experience as an operations executive.

** August 26, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast | Behind The Black

** August 28, 2020 Zimmerman/Batchelor | Behind The Black

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