Commercial space unhappy with proposed regulations
An industry advisory panel has expressed strong objections to the proposed new regulations for commercial remote sensing that were intended to streamline the space bureaucracy.
The proposed rule is intended to streamline how such systems are licensed by NOAA as the volume of license applications the office receives increases. However, many [advisory council] members argued that proposal missed the mark and could create new burdens for companies. “I find, at the moment, that the draft rule is wanting across the board, and it’s not close,” said Gil Klinger, chair of [the advisory council] and a Raytheon vice president who spent most of his career at the Defense Department and the intelligence community.
It appears that the government’s proposed revisions don’t accomplish much, and in fact might make things worse.
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An industry advisory panel has expressed strong objections to the proposed new regulations for commercial remote sensing that were intended to streamline the space bureaucracy.
The proposed rule is intended to streamline how such systems are licensed by NOAA as the volume of license applications the office receives increases. However, many [advisory council] members argued that proposal missed the mark and could create new burdens for companies. “I find, at the moment, that the draft rule is wanting across the board, and it’s not close,” said Gil Klinger, chair of [the advisory council] and a Raytheon vice president who spent most of his career at the Defense Department and the intelligence community.
It appears that the government’s proposed revisions don’t accomplish much, and in fact might make things worse.
The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden's mental health was suspect. Only in this year has the propaganda mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact.
Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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From the article: “but we’re concerned that a lot of restrictions and conditions that we had expressed concerns about remained in the draft proposal,””
I would be concerned, too, since the Commerce Department demonstrated that they are not listening to the concerns of the industry or the public. Clearly, Commerce did not explain why they left in restrictions and conditions that concerned the industry, so no one knows why they are still in the draft proposal. Do they not care about public concerns, or do they not have reasonable explanations for keeping them in the proposal? Either way, it seems that expressing concerns is a fool’s errand.
I don’t know whether these updates came from the ridiculous complaint that came from the Earth in the background of the Tesla launch, last year, but I am seeing a whole new problem develop: I am allowed to photograph the Eiffel Tower or the Golden Gate Bridge without the owner’s permission or a 30-day advance notice to the government, but I can’t photograph space objects as freely? And I can’t use infra-red, ultraviolet, or radio frequencies? And what constitutes a space object, because the last I checked, the Moon was an object in space. So are the planets, asteroids, and stars. So much for Hubble, astronomy, and radio astronomy.
The article fails to inform us as to what the risks are that concerns NOAA. A high risk or low risk of what? A risk of photographing space debris or the Eiffel Tower without the owner’s permission or 30-day governmental notification? Collision with another space object? Radio frequency interference? Catching measles?