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In an article in this week’s issue of The Space Review, Wayne Eleazer looks at the history of how the US government has approached launch vehicle procurement. One might imagine that the government would want to encourage competition, in order to reduce the government’s launch costs, but Eleazer finds just the opposite: the government has […] The Wall Street Journal [subscription required] reports Friday that the troubled SBIRS missile-warning satellite program will survive a Nunn-McCurdy review with no major changes. The Pentagon has apparently rejected proposals to cancel the program or transfer it to another contractor; instead, the Air Force will “restructure the project and impose tighter Pentagon oversight”. The restructuring […] A reader emailed me yesterday and asked, in essence, “When are you going to talk about Spaceport Sheboygan?” Yes, I have been remiss in reviewing the latest in Wisconsin space policy developments (a phrase rarely uttered in the annals of history, I’m certain.) Last week a committee of the Wisconsin State Senate held a hearing […] The European Space Agency completed a major ministerial meeting yesterday in Berlin and, in general, the agency did pretty well. The ministers, representing the agency’s 17 member states plus Canada, approved a number of major projects, including the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Earth science/reconnaissance satellite system and the ExoMars rover mission (which […] The Wall Street Journal [subscription required] reports today that it appears highly unlikely that Boeing and Lockheed Martin will get all the regulatory approvals it needs to move ahead with the formation of the United Launch Alliance by the end of the year. When the ULA was announced in May, Boeing and Lockheed believed that […] Those who have TimesSelect subscriptions may want to read John Tierney’s column in Tuesday’s issue. (Or, if you’re cheap like me, buy the dead tree edition for a buck and turn to page A31.) Tierney starts off with a discussion of Virgin Galactic and space tourism, and then segues into a discussion of prizes as […] The Florida state legislature is set to convene a special session this week, primarily to take on state Medicaid reform. However, some legislators hope to squeeze some other issues on the agenda, including incentives for the state’s space industry. The proposal, by Rep. Bob Allen, a Republican from the Space Coast region of the state, […] A few articles in this week’s issue of The Space Review have some policy relevance: Taylor Dinerman examines the future of the shuttle program, which currently has 19 missions (18 ISS flights and a Hubble repair mission) on its notional manifest through 2010. There are a number of tradeoffs that could reduce that number, although […] Some notes about what’s going on outside the US on space policy topics: Space News [subscription required] highlights an unexpected comment by a French official: research minister Francois Goulard said in a speech earlier this week that France “would have no autonomous space policy” outside of ESA. The comment apparently took many by surprise, given […] If you’re one of those people who already have a 2006 calendar and are making plans for next year (while the rest of us try and figure out what’s on the schedule for today), you should take note of some dates for Congressional lobbying activity. ProSpace announced this week that it has set the dates […] |
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