#spacepolitics — Public Fediverse posts

There followed more than a minute of awkward silence, ended by #Isaacman jumping back in for a “comms check” – and #Trump repeating his stories 🤔😆 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/07/trump-artemis-ii-crew-call-nasa-cuts

#Artemis #SpacePolitics

There followed more than a minute of awkward silence, ended by #Isaacman jumping back in for a “comms check” – and #Trump repeating his stories 🤔😆 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/07/trump-artemis-ii-crew-call-nasa-cuts

#Artemis #SpacePolitics

There followed more than a minute of awkward silence, ended by #Isaacman jumping back in for a “comms check” – and #Trump repeating his stories 🤔😆 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/07/trump-artemis-ii-crew-call-nasa-cuts

#Artemis #SpacePolitics

There followed more than a minute of awkward silence, ended by #Isaacman jumping back in for a “comms check” – and #Trump repeating his stories 🤔😆 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/07/trump-artemis-ii-crew-call-nasa-cuts

#Artemis #SpacePolitics

There followed more than a minute of awkward silence, ended by #Isaacman jumping back in for a “comms check” – and #Trump repeating his stories 🤔😆 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/07/trump-artemis-ii-crew-call-nasa-cuts

#Artemis #SpacePolitics

#WhiteHouse #NASA #budget proposal

• $8.5B for #Artemis landers, suits, and transportation
• $175M for #robotic missions to start establishing a lunar base camp, plus operations on the #Moon’s surface
• $109M to shift NASA’s Landsat EO program to #commercial providers
• $3.4B in #science cuts through eliminating 40+ missions
• $297M reduction in space tech
• $1.1B cut to #ISS spending
• $143M in #STEM cuts
https://payloadspace.com/white-house-requests-18-8b-fy27-budget-for-nasa

#Trump #Congress #SpacePolitics

In 📆 2022, Germany was the largest #ESA contributor, providing about 3.5 billion euros 💰 for three years.

With the next ministerial scheduled for Nov. 26-27, industry speculation 🔮 has suggested #Germany 🇩🇪 will offer between 4.5 and 5 billion euros 📈. Some expected the German military to support #IsarAerospace and #RocketFactory Augsburg. The #Canadian 🇨🇦 government will increase its funding by $375.9 million https://spacenews.com/industry-expects-germany-to-increase-esa-contributions/

#SpacePolitics #ESA #ERS

🇩🇪 @AuswaertigesAmt : The Federal Ministry of Defence will invest around 35 billion euro 💰 in the space sector in the coming years. This primarily involves the protection of German #SpaceSystems, such as #satellites 🛰️ https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/space-safety-and-security-strategy-2744368

#SpacePolitics #Germany

🇩🇪 @AuswaertigesAmt : The Federal Ministry of Defence will invest around 35 billion euro 💰 in the space sector in the coming years. This primarily involves the protection of German #SpaceSystems, such as #satellites 🛰️ https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/space-safety-and-security-strategy-2744368

#SpacePolitics #Germany

🇩🇪 @AuswaertigesAmt : The Federal Ministry of Defence will invest around 35 billion euro 💰 in the space sector in the coming years. This primarily involves the protection of German #SpaceSystems, such as #satellites 🛰️ https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/space-safety-and-security-strategy-2744368

#SpacePolitics #Germany

🇩🇪 @AuswaertigesAmt : The Federal Ministry of Defence will invest around 35 billion euro 💰 in the space sector in the coming years. This primarily involves the protection of German #SpaceSystems, such as #satellites 🛰️ https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/space-safety-and-security-strategy-2744368

#SpacePolitics #Germany

#Supporters say a #SpaceProgram will provide jobs for #researchers and is likely to reduce the brain 🧠 drain of emigrating #scientists 🤔 https://apnews.com/article/turkey-recep-tayyip-erdogan-moon-spacex-europe-a763414e402eb70e78ae2c2a89134f33

#Turkey #SpacePolitics #mockery

#Supporters say a #SpaceProgram will provide jobs for #researchers and is likely to reduce the brain 🧠 drain of emigrating #scientists 🤔 https://apnews.com/article/turkey-recep-tayyip-erdogan-moon-spacex-europe-a763414e402eb70e78ae2c2a89134f33

#Turkey #SpacePolitics #mockery

#Supporters say a #SpaceProgram will provide jobs for #researchers and is likely to reduce the brain 🧠 drain of emigrating #scientists 🤔 https://apnews.com/article/turkey-recep-tayyip-erdogan-moon-spacex-europe-a763414e402eb70e78ae2c2a89134f33

#Turkey #SpacePolitics #mockery

#Supporters say a #SpaceProgram will provide jobs for #researchers and is likely to reduce the brain 🧠 drain of emigrating #scientists 🤔 https://apnews.com/article/turkey-recep-tayyip-erdogan-moon-spacex-europe-a763414e402eb70e78ae2c2a89134f33

#Turkey #SpacePolitics #mockery

Mr. #Isaacman would replace the current administrator, #BillNelson https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/science/jared-isaacman-trump-nasa.html

#NASA #CommercialSpaceflight #SpacePolitics

The world needs a new convention governing space conduct. Treaties forged in the 1960s and 1970s prohibit 🚫 countries from touching another’s material. An exception for cleaning up trash is in order, along with general rules about orbital cleanliness and garbage disposal 🗑️ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2024/space-trash-debris-spacex

#SpaceDebris #SpaceRegulation #SpacePolitics

🇪🇺 #Europe’s space sector has started to respond to #SpaceX’s domination of the world space launch market, although progress has been slow ⏳ and uneven. Last month, #ESA selected four companies — #ArianeGroup, #RocketFactory Augsburg (RFA), #IsarAerospace, and The #ExplorationCompany — to help develop reusable ♻️ launch vehicle technology https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/11/esa-arianespace-crossroads

#SpaceCompany #SpacePolitics

#Newsom indicated he broadly agreed with the lawsuit and that the independent agency should have confined its debate to the merits of the permit rather than engage in a discussion of #Musk’s political activities. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/18/elon-newsom-musk-california-spacex-00184408

#SpacePolitics #SpaceRegulation

#SpaceX has sued a #California commission in federal court, accusing panel members of #political bias in blocking the space venture company from increasing 📈 the number of rockets it launches from a U.S. air base in the state. The commission on Wednesday declined to comment. https://www.reuters.com/legal/musks-spacex-sues-california-panel-alleges-political-bias-over-rocket-launches-2024-10-16/

#SpacePolitics #SpaceRegulation

#SpaceForce officials don’t have to obtain a permit or permission from the #California Coastal Commission for rocket launches; they only need to reach an agreement to mitigate the effects.

But commissioners in recent months have questioned whether #SpaceX launches, which carry private #Starlink equipment on up to 87% of their flights, should be considered private activity. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-10-11/la-me-spacex-coastal-commission

#SpacePolitics #SpaceRegulation

While the #EU 🇪🇺 has never had a #SpaceCommissioner, there is a need to zone in on a sector that McKinsey estimates will be worth $1.8 trillion 💰 by 📆 2035. Kubilius' mission letter does not mention any potential big new #SpaceProgram. While #ESA spends billions 💰 on #science and exploration projects, the #EuropeanCommission needs extra cash 💶 to build out #IRIS https://www.politico.eu/article/andrius-kubilius-defense-space-commissioner-budget-european-space-agency-cooperation

#SpacePolitics

There are multiple potential futures 🔮 that could arise from a lack of collaboration in #SpaceGovernance. Without further cooperation and agreement among the major and minor #SpacePowers, multiple, competing governance systems may end up being established, further increasing the potential for #conflict 💣 https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2022/11/governance-in-space-mining-the-moon-and-beyond.html

#SpacePolitics #SpaceRegulation

The #European 🇪🇺 Commission is expected to propose the world's first comprehensive #SpaceLaw after Easter https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-wants-make-space-safe-law-label-boring/

#SpacePolitics #SpaceRegulation

#UNOOSA International #SpaceLaw 👨‍⚖️ : United Nations Instruments https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/oosadoc/data/documents/2017/stspace/stspace61rev.2_0.html

#SpacePolitics #UN

In 📆 2022, the #SpaceIndustry was estimated to be worth US$350 billion 💵 and is projected to grow 📈 to more than one trillion 💰 dollars over the next two decades. Actors such as #SpaceX already own a majority of the #LEO #satellites 🛰️ . In the absence of a concerted global 🌏 dialogue, individual countries are pushing ahead with their own laws. Usually, international arrangements tend to arise 🥱 when there is a real risk of #conflict. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00722-4

#SpacePolitics #MoonMining

#SpacePolitics
“It got funded as a #rocket to #nowhere, and we at #NASA had to figure out something to do with it,” #Garver says. Legacy contractors like #Boeing continued to receive large bonus payments 💰 for working on the #SLS, despite delays and mushrooming #costs.
Critics of the #SLS argue that the rocket is #unsustainable by #design, relying on an old and potentially quite #expensive way to get to #space. Much of SLS is a holdover from the #spaceshuttle. But while the shuttle #orbiter, #engines, and external #tanks were designed to be #reusable, SLS and its engines were not.

“They’ve designed a rocket that is basically #unsustainable, because it’s completely #throwaway. The only bit that comes back is #Orion”

“Depending on how you look at it, the #SLS is either a product of a #broken #system that curries #favor to #wealthy 💰 industries or an example of representative #democracy working as it should,” https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/1065143/nasa-artemis-return-to-moon

Is #Artemis based on

@vicgrinberg I assume both spend taxpayer money and should therefore explain what it's used for as a part of #SpacePolitics ? "#EUSPA is a separate entity from the European Space Agency (#ESA), although the two entities work together closely." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Agency_for_the_Space_Programme

From a #commercial aspect, we want the #government 🏢 to #declare what the #standards are and then get out of the way.

What you want to avoid is #regulation that locks in a specific set of technologies 🧰 as opposed to expectations for #performances of behavior.

If #policy questions “linger” too long, investors will be scared off, stymying* the company’s growth.

The present “#piecemeal, fragmented licensing approach” needs to be #streamlined. Technology’s #speed and regulation’s #slowness causes friction https://aerospace.csis.org/the-private-sectors-assessment-of-u-s-space-policy-and-law

*stymie somebody : https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/stymie

#SpaceRegulation #SpacePolitics #SpaceCompany

#NYT 📆 June 17, 2023 Estimated to be worth about $460 billion 💰, #SpaceBusinesses sometimes operate in legal black holes 🕳️

• In #theory, #space belongs to #everyone
• That perspective is about to collide with #reality
• #SpaceDebris 🗑️ : Since nobody owns space, it isn’t always clear whose #responsibility it is to clean it up
• The #US 🇺🇸 government has #deliberately left some holes
• Business leaders caution against creating so much regulation 👨‍⚖️ that it pushes #innovation #offshore while recognizing that we need rules

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/business/dealbook/space-industry-laws.html

#SpacePolitics #SpaceRegulation

📆 Jun 15, 2023 #NASA #LEO partnerships

• #BlueOrigin
• #NorthropGrumman
• #SierraSpace
• #SpaceX
• #SpecialAerospace
• #ThinkOrbital
• #VastSpace

“It is great to see companies invest their own capital toward innovative #commercial #space capabilities, and we’ve seen how these types of partnerships benefit both the private sector and NASA” https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/seven-us-companies-collaborate-with-nasa-to-advance-space-capabilities

#SpaceCompany #SpacePolitics

🇺🇸 #NorthropGrumman's #Antares, the purpose-built launcher of the Station’s #Cygnus cargo resupply #spacecraft, is nearing a #pause in launches. The #rocket’s 🚀 first stages have been manufactured by #Pivdenmash in #Ukraine 🇺🇦. Each first stage featured two #Russian-made 🇷🇺 RD-181 #engines https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2022/12/iss-2022-roundup/

#SpaceCompany #SpacePolitics #RocketEngine #ISS #cargo

Introducing the #SenateLaunchSystem

"the system allowed the #aerospace #industry -- who was getting billions of dollars 💰 to build [the #SLS] -- to tell Congress they could do it by that time," #Garver said, explaining that the industry knew it'd be paid the same amount 💰 every year, #regardless of delays. "There was a #reverse incentive."

#NASA Inspector General Paul Martin : "We saw that the cost-plus contracts that NASA had been using to develop that combined #SLS and #Orion system work to the contractors' rather than NASA's #advantage." https://www.cnet.com/science/space/billions-behind-a-lunar-dream-why-nasas-artemis-i-moon-rocket-may-prove-unsustainable

#Artemis #LaunchCost #SpacePolitics

🇪🇺 "Normally, selecting the #launch #provider for communication #satellites that cost eight or nine figures is accompanied by a press release and plenty of celebration. That the #European #SpaceAgency, #Eutelsat, #Airbus, and #Thales #Alenia said next to nothing until the last moment says a lot about how all parties involved #really #feel about transferring three of their satellites onto #SpaceX #rockets. All three were #intended to launch on #Ariane #rockets" https://www.teslarati.com/european-spacecraft-spacex-falcon-9-launches

📆 January 5, 2023 The #French 🇫🇷 #aerospace industries association, #GIFAS, said #Europe’s 🇪🇺 #launch sector was in an “unprecedented #crisis situation” with the delayed availability of #Ariane 6 and the recent failure of the medium-lift #Vega-C rocket https://www.spaceintelreport.com/two-uncomfortable-truths-europes-launch-sector-is-in-crisis-and-no-one-knows-how-to-end-it/

#SpacePolitics #SpaceAgency #SpaceLogistics #RocketScience #ArianeSpace #ESA #EUspace

The keyword hashtag list reached 5️⃣5️⃣ 55 entries :

#AsteroidMining
#AsteroidThreat
#CelestialBodyLanding
#DSOC (Deep Space Optical Communications)
#HallEffectThruster
#HumanSpaceflight
#HumanSpaceflightBasics
#HumanSpaceflightHealth
#HumanSpaceflightSecurity
#ISRU (in situ resource utilization)
#LaunchCost
#Lunar3dPrinting
#MoonMining
#PrivateSpaceflight
#ReusableLaunchVehicle
#RocketEngine
#RocketScience
#SatelliteImprovement
#SatelliteInternetAccess
#SBSP (Space-based Solar Power)
#SmallSat
#SpaceAgency
#SpaceCommunication
#SpaceCompany
#SpaceCraft
#SpaceColonization
#SpacecraftComparison
#SpacecraftPropulsion
#SpaceDebris
#SpaceEnergy
#SpaceEvent
#SpaceFood
#SpaceForce
#SpaceHabitat
#SpaceHotel
#SpaceIndustry
#SpaceInfrastructure
#SpaceLogistics
#SpaceMaintenance
#SpaceMining
#SpaceNavigation
#SpacePhotography
#SpacePlants
#SpacePolitics
#SpacePort
#SpaceRegulation
#SpaceRobot
#SpaceScience
#SpaceSciFi
#SpaceStation
#SpaceSuit
#SpaceTelescope
#SpaceTourism
#SpaceWelding
#TimeToOrbit

#Forbes 📆 Jun 23, 2022 Former deputy #NASA #administrator: "#political and #aerospace interests were more than reluctant to embrace #any #changes which they viewed as a #threat to their own #hegemony" https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2022/06/23/new-book-paints-bleak-picture-of-nasas-human-spaceflight-program

#Politico "one of the biggest #impediments to #reform was Bill Nelson, the former U.S. senator from #Florida who represented Kennedy #Space Center and now runs #NASA" https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/21/get-your-boy-elon-in-line-nasa-tell-all-recounts-turmoil-over-private-space-race-00041085

#SpaceAgency #SpacePolitics #BillNelson #LaunchCost #SpaceCompany

#NYT 📆 Sept. 2011 #Texas is home to #NASA’s Mission Control and #Florida is where NASA’s #rockets are launched from. The two #senators played key roles in writing the NASA blueprint and outlining many #specifics of the rocket they wanted NASA to build, leading critics to #sarcastically call it the #SenateLaunchSystem. Critics note that NASA has announced ambitious rocket plans before, only to cancel them as #costs #escalated and #schedules slipped https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/science/space/15nasa.html

#Huffpost 📆 Apr. 2011 "The best bang for the buck 💵 investment in our future is a system where industrial activities such as carrying freight and building buildings are done by people who do them everywhere else in our society -- the #commercial sector -- rather than an #expensive #costplus single-use government program" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-senate-launch-system_b_843607

#Economist 📆 Aug 24th 2022 "powered by yesterday’s #technology and brought about by yesterday’s #thinking" https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/08/24/nasas-space-launch-system-is-yesterdays-rocket

#Artemis #SLS #LaunchCost #SpacePolitics

The #orbital #fuel depot idea have been much maligned by #NASA in the early days of the #SLS development because it #undercut the #rationale for the program in the first place. “It got really #political, We were basically told to sit down and #shut up.” 🙊 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacexs-starship-and-nasas-sls-could-supercharge-space-science/

#SpacePolitics

Former Deputy NASA Administrator "#Garver pushed for #substantial #change at the behest of the #Obama #administration and more investment in the #commercial #space #industry; whereas, #Bolden was more supportive of #traditional space and represented the views of many people at #NASA at the time #resistant to change. Bolden and his allies #won the battle" https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/former-nasa-official-on-trying-to-stop-sls-there-was-just-such-visible-hostility

#SpacePolitics #LaunchCost

#Artemis :#NASA's "#SLS #rocket 🚀 is #smaller than the #Saturn V. It is also much more #expensive. Adjusted for #inflation, the cost 💰 of one launch of the Saturn V in the 1960s was around $1.5 billion, which is a far cry from the $4 billion required for just one SLS launch." https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/32011-nasas-powerful-and-contraversial-sls-rocket-ready-to-launch

Pictures (combined) :
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#LaunchCost #SpacecraftComparison #SpaceAgency #SpacePolitics #SpaceCompany #SpaceLogistics #HumanSpaceflight