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There has been a lot of orbital maneuvering in Washington over the past two weeks as the House Science Committee leadership rebuffed a proposed FCC rulemaking focused on space safety and admonished the commission not to drift beyond its spectrum mandate, a Senate bill sought to extend the International Space Station's life an additional two years and NASA announced it was reshuffling its lunar priorities yet again.
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There has been a lot of orbital maneuvering in Washington over
the past two weeks as the House Science Committee leadership
rebuffed a proposed FCC rulemaking focused on space safety and
admonished the commission not to drift beyond its spectrum mandate,
a Senate bill sought to extend the International Space
Station's life an additional two years and NASA announced it
was reshuffling its lunar priorities yet again.
Around the world, China's expanding space footprint in Latin
America is raising alarm bells in the U.S.; Europe and Beijing use
lasers to achieve gigabit links to GEO and the U.S. complained
about EU plans intended to protect the European space industrial
base.
All this and more in this edition of Akin's Space Law,
Regulation and Policy Update.
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