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Article: Government lag may endanger commercial remote sensing ventures. (American Astronautical Society conference on economic aspects of satellite imagery)
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- Defense Daily
- Article date:
- November 22, 1993
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(San Francisco) The U.S. government should act more quickly on outstanding remote sensing policy issues if commercial players are to stay in the game, industry observers said Nov. 17.
Developments such as the emergence of the lightsat industry have generally outstripped the government's ability to keep up, according to Molly Macauley, senior fellow at Resources For The Future, a non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C.
"It's very expensive for companies to enter into policy debates--to push the policy frontier," she said here at the 40th annual meeting of the American Astronautical Society. "It takes time, it takes resources, and in the ...