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NOAA’s Tahara Dawkins: Satellite Servicing Industry Needs Govt Support

NOAA’s Tahara Dawkins: Satellite Servicing Industry Needs Govt Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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NOAA’s Tahara Dawkins: Satellite Servicing Industry Needs Govt Support - top government contractors - best government contracting eventTahara Dawkins, director of the commercial remote sensing regulatory affairs office at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has said she believes government regulators should help in-orbit satellite servicing systems reach commercial viability, C4ISRNET reported Friday.

“If we restrict this industry to a place where they’re not commercially viable, then this gets driven overseas,” Dawkins said at the 2018 Satellite conference.

She noted that five U.S. companies have secured licenses for on-orbit servicing missions.

Joe Anderson, director of Mission Extension Vehicle services at Orbital ATK, said at the event that the company plans to expand its work beyond geo-life extension platforms.

“Ultimately we want to develop an entire fleet of in-orbit service vehicles, including in-orbit assembly vehicles,” Anderson added.

Orbital ATK launched two in-orbit satellite servicing platforms – Mission Robotic Vehicle and Mission Extension Pods – at the conference.

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Written by Jane Edwards

is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.

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