India’s moonshot, take 2. JAXA’s not having a great year. The Space Command HQ drama is impacting budgets. A new partnership between Sweden and Latvia. Our conversation today is all about space launch and commercial airspace with Pam Underwood, Director at the Office of Spaceports for the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation.

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Pam Underwood, Director of the Office of Spaceports at the Federal Aviation Administration, on the FAA’s role to enable a safe and sustainable global spaceport industry.

You can follow Pam on LinkedIn and at the FAA Office of Spaceports.

Selected Reading

India Launches Lunar Mission: The Country’s Second Attempt To Put A Lander And Rover On The Moon- Forbes

Chandrayaan-3 launch video- Twitter 

SpaceX Starlink launch scrubs seconds before Friday liftoff; set for weekend- Florida Today 

Elon Musk's SpaceX nears $150 billion valuation after secondary share sale- CNBC

Japan space agency rocket engine explodes during test- Reuters

Investing in Space: Why Blue Origin's engine explosion matters- CNBC 

ULA's Vulcan Rocket to Debut in Q4 With a Fix for Anomaly Uncovered in March- Via Satellite

Hill battle over SPACECOM HQ seeps into Pentagon's annual $4.1B reprogramming request- Breaking Defense  

SSC Signs Latvian Ground Segment Deal - Via Satellite  

Orbital Composites wins $1.7 million Space Force contract- SpaceNews 

A New Study Reveals Evidence Of Diverse Organic Material On Mars- Astrobiology

South Australian Space Park fails to launch- Cosmos Magazine

This Virginia spaceport is firing up its local economy- Marketplace 

The sound of Aeolus will blow you away- ESA

Life of Aeolus composer: @jamiepereramuso on Twitter

​​https://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/EarthObservation/Aeolus-musical-sheet-230711.pdf 

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