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"Unraveling the Power Dynamics of Space: Who Holds the Reins?"

On Episode 89 of This Week In Space, the challenges of regulating spaceflight are discussed, with the question of who should be the primary regulator moving forward. The FAA has played a major role in spaceflight rules, but many in the field argue against unnecessary control. George Nield, President of Commercial Space Technologies and former Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Aviation at the FAA, joins the discussion. In other space news, a GAO report warns of a potential delay in the Artemis 3 landing to 2027, and a model rocket maker offers a detailed recreation of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for purchase.

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DARPA scales back Blackjack space project.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has downsized its Blackjack experiment, which aims to prove the utility of commercial space technologies for military applications, from a 20-satellite constellation to only four spacecraft. The four identical Blackjack satellites were launched on June 12 and will undergo several months of commissioning before starting demonstrations of interactions involving proliferated satellite architectures. The satellites were built on commercial Saturn-class buses made by Blue Canyon Technologies and have payloads made by SEAKR Engineering and CACI. DARPA does not expect to add more satellites to the experiment beyond the four that launched on Monday.

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