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Commercialization

Commercial Spaceflight Federation Is Asleep – Again

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
July 31, 2012
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Keith’s note: There will be a hearing on Wednesday at 2:00 pm EDT titled “Emerging Commercial Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicle Market”. The hearing was announced several weeks ago. Yet the Commercial Spaceflight Federation has not issued a heads up or media advisory for this hearing. Nor is anything posted on their website. Not only are three of its members testifying, a representative of the CSF’s Suborbital Applications Researchers Group is testifying as well. One has to wonder just what it is that the CSF does when it seems to go out of its way to not promote things of obvious importance to its members, the media, and the commercial space industry as a whole.
Suborbital Reusable Vehicles: A 10-Year Forecast of Market Demand Released, Space Florida
“Space Florida – the State of Florida’s spaceport authority and aerospace economic development agency – and the Federal Aviation Administration Office of Commercial Space (FAA-AST) – partnered in November 2011 to commission a study prepared by The Tauri Group, on the forecast 10-year demand for suborbital reusable vehicles.”
Keith’s update: This report has been issued by Space Florida (a CSF member) and was conducted by a company that will be testifying today. CSF has made no mention of this report.

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