SpaceNews This Week | SpaceX founder joins Trump advisory group

December 16, 2016 View this email in your browser SpaceX founder joins Trump advisory group Jeff Foust — Elon Musk, the founder and chief executive of SpaceX, has joined a group created by President-elect Trump to provide advice on the economy for the incoming administration. Pegasus launches hurricane forecasting satellites Jeff Foust — In its first flight in nearly three and a half years, an Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rocket successfully launched eight satellites for NASA Dec. 15 that will be used to improve hurricane forecasts.  Missile defense tracking systems need to move to orbit, leaders say Phillip Swarts — As the U.S. military works on developing its next-generation missile defense systems, more of the resources need to be focused in space, experts said Dec. 14. FCC chairman says Jan. 20 will be his last day Caleb Henry — U.S. Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler, whose rebuke to the satellite industry over unwillingness to compromise over 5G spectrum sent shivers down many a spine, has declared his intent to leave office before Donald Trump is sworn in as president next month. Beauchamp: Military satcom resiliency will rely on more commercial, international partnerships Phillip Swarts—The solution to making military space communications secure could be more. More satellites. More partners. More bandwidth. More everything. Military satcom – and other space-based systems – need to "evolve from an architecture where we deliver capability from a single layer of identical nodes in space," said Winston Beauchamp, U.S. Air Force deputy undersecretary for space. Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Advertise with Us | Privacy Policy | Subscribe Copyright © 2016 SpaceNews Inc., All rights reserved. You signed up to receive this newsletter on Spacenews.com. At times you may receive marketing material. Please unsubscribe from SpaceNews Marketing if you no longer want to receive this material. Our mailing address is: SpaceNews Inc. 1414 Prince St, Suite 204 Alexandria, VA 22314 Add us to your address book update subscription preferences(subscribe/unsubscribe) for this list unsubscribe from all lists