developing space projects. please welcome christian zur of the space industry council, us chamber of commerce. good morning and thank you to the chamber of commerce, launching the space economy. our second annual space summit. events such as this are team effort and we appreciate the support of our sponsors, boeing, northrup, rocket lab, one web, hawkeye 360, we have been busy in the past year from policy discussions ranging from management of commercial aviation and space launch airspace to small satellite encryption and the orbit assurance, commercial opportunities aboard the iss and future gateway. we convened a roundtable for the coast guard regarding the need for greater use of space surveillance in the arctic waterways. and space industry council has an effort for policy pursuits. fortunately we have an enthusiastic space industry ceo. and it sums up the chamber s approach to the entire sector for which i will quote. harnessing the potential of space will be no easy
good morning, and welcome to the u.s. chamber of commerce and to launch, the space economy, our second annual space summit. events such as this are a team effort and we deeply appreciate the support of our sponsors, boeing, northrop, rocket lab, oneweb, hawkeye 360, and ascend. we have been businessy over the past year. from policy discussions ranging from management of commercial aviation and space launch airspace, to small satellite encryption and deorbit insurance and commercial opportunities aboard the iss and future gateway. we even convened a roundtable with a commandant of the u.s. coast guard regarding the need of greater use of space-enabled surveillance of the arctic waterways. suffice to say the chamber s procurement and space industry council has an ever-expanding set of policy pursuits. fortunately, we have an enthusiastic space industry ceo here at the chamber. after last year s summit tom donahue bro an articwrote an ar which i will quote. he wrote, harnessi
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