Space Policy – NewSpace Chicago

Event Jan 19, 2021: State of the Industrial Space Base

December 2, 2020 December 2, 2020Events

Private investment in commercial space activity is at an all-time high and growing as entrepreneurs and industrialists create new technologies and adapt existing technologies for space applications. This is fueled by the decreasing cost of space access and broad advances in space enabling technologies. This provides the opportunity for an expanded space industrial base beyond “big” aerospace companies that have traditionally supported government space missions. In May 2020, over 120 space leaders from across government,…

Event Thu 5/9: Property Rights in Outer Space: A Startup’s Voyage

April 25, 2019 April 25, 2019Events

Join a discussion between an attorney and a hypothetical space startup with a business model to collect abandoned objects in Low Earth Orbit and mine local asteroids for exotic minerals. Can a business extract minerals from celestial bodies? Can abandoned objects in space be retrieved for the valuable metals remaining in the “space junk”? Attorney Charles Lee Mudd Jr. will maneuver the NewSpace audience through these issues and more in the context of advising a…

Event Thu 4/11 UPDATED: Creating Value in the NewSpace Industry

March 25, 2019 April 10, 2019Events

Charles Mudd will be unable to join us Thursday evening due to inclement weather. In his place, Aaron Pagel will present on creating value in the NewSpace industry. There are a lot of effective ways to approach strategy and sometimes the most common way is by following the example of other successful companies. But is that the most efficient method when blazing a completely new path into a largely untouched NewSpace economy? Aaron Pagel will…

Event Thu 10/4: Space Law and Startups

September 13, 2018 September 13, 2018Events

Fresh from the First United Nations Conference on Space Law and Policy, Charles Lee Mudd Jr. will return to NewSpace Chicago to provide a two-part presentation. First, he will summarize the proceedings from the UNOOSA conference held in Moscow hosted by ROSCOSMOS. Second, he will provide a hypothetical walkthrough of legal issues facing a commercial space startup. Specifically, he will walk the audience through the steps involved in talk to an attorney, the legal advice…

Event Tue 3/6: Navigating Legal Challenges within the Commercial Space Industry

February 19, 2018 February 19, 2018Events

The commercial space industry is currently experiencing exponential growth which will continue over the next several years. This provides entrepreneurs, startups, and businesses novel opportunities to embark on ventures into space and the space economy. One of the challenges to a successful space business is a legal minefield of regulatory schema unique to the space industry that must be navigated. For example, many do not understand the applicability of arms control regulations to manufacturing otherwise…