Library: A Round-up of Reading

March 22, 2010 at 2:02 pm | Posted in Library | Leave a comment

Articles
Peter B. de Selding, Virgin Galactic Applauds Legal Protection Against Space Tourist Lawsuits, Space.com

Jeff Foust, Can commercial space win over Congress?, The Space Review

Christopher Stone, Space export control reform: the different schools of thought and a proposed way forward, The Space Review

Reports
ESPI Perspectives 30: The Economic Potential of Space – Towards a Long-Term Perspective

ESPI Report 22: Responsive Space for Europe – Elements for a Roadmap for Europe Based on a Comparative Analysis with the U.S. Operational Responsive Space Concept

Space Acquisitions: DOD Poised to Enhance Space Capabilities, but Persistent Challenges Remain in Developing Space Systems, by Cristina Chaplain, director, acquisition and sourcing management, before the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, Senate Committee on Armed Services. GAO-10-447T, March 10.

GAO – AVIATION SECURITY: TSA Is Increasing Procurement and Deployment of the Advanced Imaging Technology, but Challenges to This Effort and Other Areas of Aviation Security Remain

GAO – JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER: Additional Costs and Delays Risk Not Meeting Warfighter Requirements on Time

Periodicals
MilSat Magazine (March 2010)

IISL Newsletter (No. 76)

Blogs
A new TSA Administrator nominated – Will his fate be different from the last one? – Security Debrief

NATO Commander Backs Cooperation with Russia on Missile Defense – MDAA

Pakistani officials refuse to submit to x-ray scan – FP Passport

Congressmen to call for 30-day spaceflight study – Space Politics

A little bit more about the White House space conference – Space Politics

OSTP Space Summit Update – NASA Watch

How to Build a Spatial Law and Policy Community? – Spatial Law and Policy

Another step towards export control reform – Space Politics

Iran’s Missile Launch Site Points to North Korea – MDAA

Russian State Duma Might Block New START Treaty – MDAA

ISS thru 2028 and NewSpace Laws – The Space Advocate

Daily Space Policy Reaction – NASA Watch

What is a Space Weapon? – Arms Control Wonk

Her Majesty’s Space Agency, really?! – Hyperbola

India contributes to US export reform in its own way – Hyperbola

When Is An Astronaut Not An Astronaut? – Jeff Krukin

CSCA Annual Meeting Roundup – U.S. Satellite and Space Technology Export Control Law and Policy Reform Blog

The Israeli Space Program and Cooperation with India – Space Issues

Commercial Space Safety Regs: NASA vs. FAA – Spaceports