"China is replacing Russia as the No. 2 space power," Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., told Breaking Defense.
The National Space Council recently heard suggestions ranging from establishing a licensing "clearinghouse" to temporarily doing away with licensing altogether.
As aircraft shrink, threats expand, and technology accelerates, aircraft engines must iterate along with the threats.
The White House announcement comes after the FCC indicated it was wading into the murky regulatory waters of space-space services like satellite repair and refueling.
"I think it will be incumbent on governments pretty soon to force operators to have some way to get their satellite out of the way [when it fails] and get it into a proper graveyard orbit," says Michael Pollack, who does business development for Effective Space.
WASHINGTON: Three influential House lawmakers have asked DARPA in a Jan. 25 letter to review a robotic space repair program to see if it violates the National Space Policy by competing with private-sector efforts and to put the program on hold until the review is complete. The National Space Policy requires “that the government not build or […]