A couple articles of note from Monday’s issue of The Space Review: Grant Bonin completes his examination of the use of medium-lift vehicles instead of a heavy-lift launcher to carry out the Vision for Space Exploration. Part two looks at cost and reliability issues associated with large versus smaller vehicles. Also, Ryan Zelnio offers a short history of export control policy for the commercial space (primarily satellite manufacturing) industry. While the focus here is on large comsat manufacturers, export control is an issue throughout the US space industry, affecting both large and emergent companies. A follow-up essay by Zelnio will examine the effect of export control policy on the industry over the last several years.
