FAA COMSTAC 20/21 May meeting presentations online

Go here for the US Federal Aviation Administration's Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee's 20/21 May meeting presentations are now online

In summary the key points seem to Hyperbola to be that,

• the personal spaceflight industry is drawing up training standards with a draft report now in circulation
• the FAA's office of commercial space transportation (AST) is now chairing the International Astronautical Federation's commercial spaceflight safety committee with Virgin Galactic and Swedish Space Corporation as co-chairs. The first meeting will be this October
• there is agreement that the FAA AST should operate a lessons learned database
• the COMSTAC reusable launch vehicles working group is to agree long term industry priorities with FAA AST with a meeting in October
• The COMSTAC space operations working group is going to produce a wite paper by July setting out what US Department of Defense policies, procedures, regulations are hindering the commercial sector
• unsurpisingly the non-GEO launch market forecasts says it is going to be mostly government for some time to come
• the export controls group has a whole series of recommendations relating to ITAR, whether they are just its recommendations or the outcome of the Bigelow commodity jurisidiction is not clear
• And best of luck to anyone can get Wegner's operatonally responsive space powerpoint to open