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World Economic Forum decides its business is running space too!

We’re the government and we’re here to help you! The World Economic Forum (WEF) yesterday released its proposed new set of guidelines for mitigating space junk in orbit, even though some of the most important commercial satellite operators (SpaceX and Viasat) have not signed on.

The Space Industry Debris Mitigation Recommendations document, released by the WEF June 13, outlines recommendations to avoid collisions that can create debris by limiting the lifetime of satellites in orbit after they have completed their missions and improving coordination among satellite operators.

Among those recommendations is to establish a success rate for “post-mission disposal,” or removal of satellites from orbit after the end of their missions, to 95% to 99%. That disposal should be completed no more than five years after the end of each satellite’s mission.

You can read the guidelines here [pdf], which the WEF is pushing governments worldwide to adopt. Though SpaceX and Viasat have not signed on, 27 companies have endorsed the guidelines, including OneWeb, Airbus, Axiom, and a host of orbital tug and space junk removal startups, the latter of which all benefit from these guidelines.

While the proposals makes some sense, everyone in the space industry should remain skeptical, and resist the call for more government regulation. Once this power is given to government it will never be recanted, and will only grow with time. Moreover, all signs indicate that such interference by law by government is unnecessary. Both satellite operators and most rocket companies (the exception mostly China) have been making strong efforts to deal with the issue of space junk, for profit. The fact that there are a host of orbital tug and space junk startups right now illustrates this. Investors have realized there is money to be made removing satellites and space junk. They don’t need government telling them what to do.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

6 comments

  • Col Beausabre

    Who the heck is the WEF and why should anyone pay attention to it?

  • Concerned

    Colonel: Klaus Schwab and his henchmen and associates are the principals of the WEF: these are the same guys pushing for “The Great Reset”– I believe Schwab wrote a book with that very phrase in the title. All the fattest billionaires and their sycophants gather annually in Davos, Switzerland to discuss how this global financial hegemony is to proceed. They are in bed with the World Health Organization and kowtow heavily to the CCP– in fact they greatly admire how that regime has subjugated and efficiently control 1.4 billion people: it’s their ultimate model for the global utopia of governance that they seek. It’s only the USA (and smaller and smaller parts at that) that stand in their way of this nirvana. I humbly plead you and other remaining patriots pay very close attention to their plans, as much of the seemingly crazy dysfunction in our country these days is traceable to their agenda. Does “Build Back Better” sound familiar? Before you can build back, you must first tear down.

  • GaryMike

    Those who need to control, want to control, are trying to control all the new shiny things. They can’t help themselves. It’s who they are.

  • Alton

    Who is WEF ?

    The Great Davos Wonders WHO Know better than Everyone ELSE…..

    The Founders of ESG HRC-CEI
    Thus the Bud-lite and 🎯 Target current blow -up.
    And pushers of CBDC..
    Central Bank Digital Currency Programmable which is currently running on the servers of the New York Federal Reserve Bank 🏦.
    As per Olde Joe’s Executive Order of March 9, 2022.

    Creators of the Phrase: You will Own Nothing and Enjoy It…..

    As an example of the extended power:

    Actually that is What got US Here . . . . . .

    Yes Four Horsemen of ESG.

    In 2000, the Open Society Foundation Funded the Human Rights Campaign (Gay Rights Organization) to create a “Special” Scoring Scheme under ESG, thus the CEI system was born.
    In 1999, Larry Fink left his Wall Street firm (Goldman Sachs) and created BlackRock Money Management Group, later they went TOTALLY WOKE, then joined with Vanguard, First Street, State Street and picked up over the years 6-12 other firms which by that time had New Management that was Progressive … They chose to use the HRC’$ CEI Scores as the basis for using Americans Pensions, 401k’s, IRA’s to purchase the stock of Companies and whip them into line with the WOKEness Agenda!

    $20,000,000,000,000 in Assets under Management at the moment.

    Example, 🎯 Target today has 30% plus owned by these Investment Companies, the Banks that the Corporations use every day have these Four Horsemen of the ESG Apocalypse who own large chunks of the Banks..so if you don’t follow thier Commands…..NO DOLLARS for you.😮

    Today 842 corporations, (Minus Butt Lite), have a 💯% CEI rating, with 1,271 carrying an APPROVED rate.

    The Open SF was Founded and Funded by Geo. S*R*S. . . . .

  • GaryMike

    The 2nd Amendment keeps most of these creeps from approaching out in the open.

    They have to be sneaky, which is slower, but not impossible to detect.

    Bang!.

  • wayne

    I’ll drop this in here….

    Viva Frei (6-15-23)
    “They want you dead, but they will accept your submission.”
    Daniel Penny charged
    https://youtu.be/3s1t0aZfRZ4
    (8:29)

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