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Advisory committee seeks to enhance commercial space activities

 

WASHINGTON — A new advisory committee has proposed a set of recommendations to NASA in areas ranging from export control to advertising to enhance commercial activities in space.

 

The Regulatory and Policy Committee of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC) met for the first time Nov. 16 at NASA Headquarters here. The committee, announced at the council’s last meeting in August and comprised primarily of representatives of space companies, is tasked with examining issues associated with commercialization of NASA activities and the agency's support for commercial space.

"This is a big change for the NAC," said Mike Gold of Maxar Technologies, chairman of the committee. "For a while I was the only industry representative on the NAC, and now we have a committee full of industry representatives. I think that is representative of the shifts occurring in industry, and I greatly appreciate NASA being willing to go in this direction."

Over the course of the three-hour inaugural meeting, the committee approved a series of observations, findings and recommendations on several topics. Among them was a perennial area of concern for the space industry, export controls. "Second only to gravity, the ITAR had the greatest chance of keeping our spacecraft on the ground," said Gold, referring to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, which for many years covered satellites and related components.
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TDIH. On the photo: The memorial in Nakhabino in honor of the launch of the first Soviet liquid-propellant rockets - GIRD-09 and GIRD-X. Sergei Korolev in 1933. #SpaceHistory

https://twitter.com/katlinegrey/status/1066715642890457088

 

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This is neat...forgotten history...to most...

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18 hours ago, Draggendrop said:

 

Astra maybe....Vector has been talking about a launch test soon as well.

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It appears that the odds are good that the launcher is from Astra.

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Whatever it is Maricopa will spend a ton of money and be sited at Launch Complex 20, a former Titan I/III pad near the North end of ICBM Road.

 

Rumors: Firefly or Relativity Space

 

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Speaking of Relativity Space, last Sunday night CBS's 60 Minutes newsmagazine did a story on them and their tech.

 

Relativity's innovation is a gigantic 3D printer which can not only print engine parts but entire rocket propellant tanks and structure,

 

 

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Makes me wonder if SpaceX is going to employ FSW to fab the Al tank shells on Starship. It'd make them drastically stronger (lighter and thinner) and avoid the issues that have plagued SLS dev.

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Have you guys noticed the number of mistakes being released by NASA media lately...every week it seems that there is a "facepalm" event.

 

This weeks...

 

 Vikings were RTG's....doh....

 

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But then again, the SLS is one "bull cookie" event after another....great source of entertainment.

 

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NASA really needs to consider having a "historian" review a lot of their media releases.

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SpaceNews Awards 2018

https://spacenews.com/awards/awards-18/

 

Breakthrough of the year.....Falcon Heavy

 

Company of the year......Iridium

 

Startup of the year....Rocket Lab

 

Unsung hero of the year...Tom Mueller

 

Check out the rest and the writeups at the above link...

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