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Daniel Baker to head new space policy center.
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BOULDER, Colorado – The myriad of policy issues that underscore the changing space landscape are to be embraced by a new research and study center, established to focus on the role of the U.S. government, expanding growth of commercial space, as well as the interaction between civilian and military factions.

To be announced by the University of Colorado, Boulder is establishment of the Colorado Space Policy Center (CSPC). 

Daniel Baker, a distinguished professor of planetary and space physics at the university, is taking on the mantle of director of the Colorado Space Policy Center.

Wellspring of organizations

On an early agenda for CSPC study includes what Baker said is the unregulated use of low Earth orbit. Other topics to be tackled are science in the “new space” era, planetary protection, China Policy and international partnerships, space commercialization, human versus robotic space exploration, as well as relationships between national security and civilian space programs.

Credit: The Aerospace Corporation’s Space Safety Institute

The center will draw from university expertise in space research, including business and other fields, while tapping a wellspring of major aerospace organizations in the area, including the boom in local-area entrepreneurial space start-ups and military space specialists.

For more details, go to my new SpaceNews story – “University of Colorado, Boulder to announce new space policy center” – at:

https://spacenews.com/university-of-colorado-boulder-to-announce-new-space-policy-center/