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23 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
At a House Science Cmte hearing this morning, Rep. Lucas (R-OK) presses NOAA Administrator Spinrad on commercial weather satellite data buys. Spinrad says he is excited about the prospects of using GNSS RO data for forecasting, but needs to ensure it’s accurate and sustainable.
Lucas also asked about commercial purchases of space weather data, invoking the PROSWIFT Act; Spinrad took that for the record.
Rep. Babin (R-TX) asks Spinrad about the Office of Space Commerce (hosted by NOAA) and its role in STM.

Spinrad: planning an interagency demo of open architecture data repository in next several weeks. Also working on analysis of alternatives for STM organization.
Both Babin and Spinrad invoked several @SpaceNews_Inc op-eds in their exchange:

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spacenews.com/op-ed-noaa-is-…
spacenews.com/op-ed-commerce…

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23 Sep
NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) chair Patricia Sanders on this week’s HEOMD reorganization: effectiveness of any organizational change depends on execution. Agency does have two capable leaders for the new organization (Free and Lueders).
Sanders also reiterates a longstanding concern of ASAP that there is no lead federal agency for space traffic management; a “critical safety issue” still not addressed by Congress.
ASAP’s David West says the Crew-2 Crew Dragon will do a 360-degree flyaround of the ISS after undocking in November; the first by a US spacecraft since the shuttle era.
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21 Sep
Interesting at the NASA town hall meeting to see the undoing of the decade-old merger of the exploration and space ops mission directorates as a “huge indication of the progress we’ve made.”
A theme here is that the split of directorates will provide “focused oversight.” So NASA human exploration and ops programs didn’t have focused oversight before now?
NASA Administrator Nelson emphasizes that this split of the exploration and operations mission directorates doesn’t mean human spaceflight is taking over the agency, citing aeronautics and science projects. “Why would we sacrifice all that?”
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6 Apr
In another LEO Digital Forum panel, SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell says the company plans to start polar launches of Starlink satellites this summer. Hopes to have full global connectivity after 28 launches; after that additional satellites will add capacity.
Shotwell says SpaceX concerned about space sustainability. Worries about sats without propulsion: “When you’re flying a brick, that’s troublesome.”

Viasat’s Mark Dankberg: a satellite that has propulsion and fails is the same as one without propulsion.
Shotwell: no timeframe for ending the Starlink beta test. Still have a lot of work to make the network reliable.
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19 Feb
At the NG-15 briefing, NASA says 75% chance of favorable weather for Antares/Cygnus launch tomorrow, 95% if slips to Sunday.
ISS program manager Joel Montalbano says it’s “too early to say” if the Falcon 9 booster failed landing this week will have any impacts on schedule for next commercial crew mission. NASA is talking with SpaceX about the landing anomaly to better understand any issues.
Montalbano says the synopsis NASA issued earlier this month about getting a seat on the April Soyuz flight closes today; can’t talk details while still open, but after today NASA will be ready to take next steps on this.
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19 Feb
NASA briefing on plans for a second Green Run static-fire test of the SLS is getting started. The test is scheduled for next Thursday, the 25th.
NASA’s Tom Whitmeyer says they are still on a path to launch Artemis-1 this year, but recognizes challenges ahead.
John Honeycutt, SLS program manager, says the core stage and RS-25 engines were in “excellent condition” after the first test; a “generational opportunity” to learn about the rocket while still in a test config.
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18 Feb
And it looks like that post-landing briefing is starting on NASA TV.
NASA Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk said he got a phone call after landing from President Biden: “Congratulations, man.” Adds that the president wants to give thanks to the team in person soon.
With a successful landing, Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator for science, dramatically rips up the no-longer-needed contingency plan.
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