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Space Technologies

Good morning,

We are now nearly 48 hours into President Trump’s second administration. It’s going to be an interesting few years, for sure.

The president seems poised to disband the National Space Council, after SpaceX lobbying. Now, this is an interesting move as President Trump reestablished the council in 2017, after a 24 year hiatus. The council had responsibility in policy formulation and sought to pull together representatives of commercial, governmental, and military space communities, chaired by the Vice President.

We are agnostic as to what organization achieves that aim, but the effort is what matters. Ensuring stakeholders are each represented in policy is critical to ensuring the long term success and viability of our efforts in space. Having said that, then it becomes logical that the function can easily pass from the National Space Council to another entity (of which there are several with very similar composition inside the White House, already).

Space remains a …