Space Infrastructure Foundation

At the Global Satellite Servicing Forum (GSSF) 2021 meeting this morning there was a question to panelists for SpaceLogistics, Astroscale, Starfish and Gitai on the role of debris removal, servicing and assembly companies in ISS life extension or removal. In the Q&A someone from Goddard posted this link

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/20/nasa-evaluating-private-s**ce-station-proposals-for-iss-replacement.html

In the discussion it became clear that industry's expectation is this transition will be completed before the decade is out. Our s**ce infrastructure on-orbit will transition from servicing of legacy systems to servicing of cooperative client s**cecraft.

I believe this is the first time anyone has put a calendar on this formative transition.

NASA reviews private s**ce station proposals, expects to save over $1 billion annually after ISS retires NASA received about a dozen proposals from companies to build private s**ce stations that would replace the International Space Station later this decade.

Friends: Congratulations to SpaceX. Thank you for opening our future in s**ce.

Historic. SIF is collaborating with SpaceLogistics on new s**ce standards within CONFERS (www.satellitesconfer.org)

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