Friday, January 31, 2025

Short Takes – 1-31-25

Six Actions Published by the Environmental Protection Agency With Comment Periods That Closed January 27, 2025, and January 29, 2025; Reopening of Comment Periods. Federal Register EPA comment extension. Summary: “This document reopens the comment period for 30 days for six notices [list here]published by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register between October 31, 2024, and January 14, 2025. This document reopens the comment period for those six notices with comment periods that closed January 27, 2025, and January 29, 2025.” Comments now due March 3rd, 2025.

Retro Spaceplane aces test for space station cargo missions. NewAtlas.com article. Pull quote: “Along with communications links between the payloads and Sierra Space’s mission control room and NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, the tests included three payloads: the Polar cryogenic preservation system for transporting scientific samples, the Powered Ascent Utility Locker (PAUL) for charging CubeSats during ascent, and NASA’s Single Stowage Locker, which is a standard stowage system for experiments and other payloads.”

SpaceX and Vast want ideas for science experiments on Dragon spacecraft and Haven-1 space station. Space.com article. Pull quote: “Vast Space is scheduled to launch the Haven-1 space station to orbit this August. The single-module station will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, to be followed in short order by the launch of a SpaceX Crew Dragon that will ferry a small number of astronauts to temporarily inhabit that station. Now, SpaceX and Vast have issued a joint request for proposals on just what to do onboard once Haven-1 is in low-Earth orbit (LEO).”

EO 14171 Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce. Federal Register.

EO 14172 Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness. Federal Register.

EO 14173 Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity. Federal Register.

EO 17174 Revocation of Certain Executive Orders. Federal Register.

EO 14175 Designation of Ansar Allah as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Federal Register.

EO 14178 Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology. Federal Register.

EO 14179 Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence. Federal Register.

EO 14180 Council To Assess the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Federal Register.

EO 14181 Emergency Measures To Provide Water Resources in California and Improve Disaster Response in Certain Areas. Federal Register.

EO 14182 Enforcing the Hyde Amendment. Federal Register.

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