The US House Speaker introduces a bill to amend title 51, to extend the learning period for commercial human space flight. The Federal Communications Commission introduces new rules to ensure commercial space launches have the spectrum resources they need for reliable communications. Iridium Communications’ CEO says that his company will hit $1 billion in annual service revenue in 2030, and more.

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Our guest today is Dr. Paul Jaffe, an electronics engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory. Learn more about Space Power Beaming on the Naval Research Laboratory’s website.

Selected Reading

To amend title 51, United States Code, to extend the learning period for commercial human space flight. 

FCC Ensures Commercial Space Launches Have Reliable Spectrum Resources

Iridium Forecasts $1B Service Revenue in 2030, Hints at Narrowband IoT Ambitions- Via Satellite

True Anomaly lands $17 million U.S. Space Force contract for Space Domain Awareness- PR Newswire

NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return to Earth: Live updates

Hong Kong's first high-resolution AI satellite set for November launch- CGTN

Chandrayaan-3 Mission- X

NASA’s Webb Finds Carbon Source on Surface of Jupiter’s Moon Europa 

Namibia and South Africa Explore Space Collaboration at 7th AfriGeo Symposium- Space in Africa

Luis Zea, space bioengineer: ‘We cannot go to the Moon and Mars only to consume all the resources like on Earth’- El Pais

California bill would force large companies to disclose greenhouse gas emissions- NBC

Tom Hanks Says He'd Clean Space Toilets For The Chance To Be An Astronaut- Huffington Post

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