Plus: Planning ahead for the 2027 World Radiocommunication Conference
By Dan Robitzski
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Join us for our next conversation on Golden Dome: Much of the Golden Dome system will depend on space-based and ground-based sensors — an evolving network meant to detect launches, follow hypersonic weapons and monitor activity across Earth and orbit. On June 25, join us as leaders from Arcfield, L3Harris and LeoLabs discuss these technologies, what’s necessary to make them operate at a high level and what possibilities could be in the works for the satellites involved. Register now. |
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Larger megaconstellations mean more hardware that's destined to inevitably reenter the Earth's atmosphere. To protect the environment and especially the ozone layer from the toll of mass-injection events, researcher Savanna McNamara penned an opinion article proposing an orbital chemistry credit system, borrowing from the overall logic of the carbon credit system that's meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
McNamara argued that using a credit system to limit the number of reentries and compensating companies that extend the lifetime of their spacecraft would create a new economy centered around keeping space sustainable and mitigating the impact space activity has on Earth.
"This is not a tax, nor a prohibition; it’s an invitation by design," McNamara wrote. Operators who design around mass reentry will "participate as credit buyers or fund contributors rather than penalized actors. They’ll capitalize the very infrastructure that will eventually make their satellites serviceable cheaper, faster and with more competitive technology. Every participant in the system is contributing to a U.S. orbital servicing industry that did not previously exist."
Read the full article on SpaceNews here. |
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The 2023 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC23) in Dubai. Credit: ITU
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With the 2027 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-27) around the corner, Greg Francis, vice chair of Access Partnership and a former chief of staff to United States WRC ambassadors, wrote an opinion article laying out how the U.S. delegation should approach the conference in order to best achieve American interests.
Francis proposes that the U.S. should lead with a message of how technological innovation fosters economic growth, prioritizing science-sharing with the world and fostering discipline and unity among the global space industry.
Read the full SpaceNews article here.
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