Comments on: Defense Department quietly releases a new space policy http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/22/defense-department-quietly-releases-a-new-space-policy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=defense-department-quietly-releases-a-new-space-policy Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Bennett In Vermont http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/22/defense-department-quietly-releases-a-new-space-policy/#comment-385767 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:13:54 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6042#comment-385767 :-) Not in so many words, but I suspect that you’ve got the gist of it nailed down.

]]> By: Vladislaw http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/22/defense-department-quietly-releases-a-new-space-policy/#comment-385731 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:24:47 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6042#comment-385731 Wasn’t that the deal made? We let you have commercial crew and we get to have the pork express, once your commercial crew is up and running then you can cut the monster rocket.

]]> By: Googaw http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/22/defense-department-quietly-releases-a-new-space-policy/#comment-385701 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:51:06 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6042#comment-385701 It’s abstract. Which means you have to play in a lot of “fill-in-the-blanks”. Go thru a few dozen weeks of Aviation Week in order to get some good concrete ideas of what they are talking about in each category.

]]> By: vulture4 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/22/defense-department-quietly-releases-a-new-space-policy/#comment-385596 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 01:42:10 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6042#comment-385596 I don’t know whether the SLS/MPCV is going to survive or not, but if it’s not they ought to make the decision now rather than in a few years since they are spending about $10,000,000 on it every day.

As to the US military they write that we need international standards of “behavior” regarding space debris, an obvious dig at China. I wonder if this standard will apply to us. Just keep in mind that when the US blew up a satellite (immediately after the Chinese did so) that in spite of assurances that all the fragments would somehow fall harmlessly one ended up on a course for the ISS which had to do a collision avoidance maneuver.

]]> By: Fred Willett http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/22/defense-department-quietly-releases-a-new-space-policy/#comment-385424 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:00:59 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6042#comment-385424 It is a recognition of the fact that budgets are going to get tighter and the DoD has to find ways to squeeze more out of the things they’ve got.
It bodes ill for the EELV program which the AF estimates is costing them $466.6M a flight.
It bodes ill for expensive programs like SLS and MPCV over at NASA where similar budget constraints are inevitable.
Belt tightening is going to be the story of 2013

]]> By: Kevin Norman http://www.spacepolitics.com/2012/11/22/defense-department-quietly-releases-a-new-space-policy/#comment-385313 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 21:59:53 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/?p=6042#comment-385313 Vacuous. Not intended for any reasonable person to read. What they really are up to is not for us to have access to. Surprised?

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