Our objective in sharing this document is to provide information to our Texas representatives for the upcoming 2023 Texas State Legislature while continuing to generate collaborative feedback from members of the Texas-Space Ecosystem.
TEXSPACE: 2022 ANNUAL REPORT
Texas Space Commission
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
Sets the direction and strategy for space-related matters and activities.
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Collaborative representation from executive and legislative branches, academia, military, community and industry.
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VISION
The Current Context: In Headlines
World News: 2022
Russia threatens cyberattacks against Star Link and commercial satellite constellation
World News: 2022
China discovers new mineral on lunar surface and conducts robotic sample return
World News: 2022
China completes Tiangong Space Station in 10 years and larger than NASA’s Skylab
World News: 2022
China sets new world record achieving two-hour cargo supply mission
World News: 2022
NASA Artemis 1 conducts first uncrewed test flight
OUR VISION: In Headlines
World News: 2022
SpaceX Starship conducts first flight test
Texas News: 2023
The State of Texas establishes a Texas Space Commission to set the strategy for Texas to remain competitive within the space economy and identify opportunities for growth
World News: 2023
Intuitive Machines beats Japan startup ispace to become the first commercial lunar lander to touchdown on the lunar southern pool
Texas News: 2023
Houston Spaceport is listed as an opportunity and free-trade zone
World News: 2023
Jared Isaacman conducts first civilian spacewalk with private program, Polaris in a SpaceX Dragon capsule to boost NASA Hubble Space Telescope into higher orbit
Texas News: 2024
Future technology and space conference convening, the entire state announcing the strategic vision for Texas’ space program
Texas News: 2024
Flextronics and NTS move to Houston Spaceport aiding prototyping and supply chain for space companies with a combination of local, state, and federal tax incentives
World News: 2024
Space Perspective launches first civilian commercial spaceflight for tourists
Texas News: 2024
Groundbreaking for classified facilities and SCIF to support Space Force and DoD military space operations
World News: 2025
Russia and China, in joint military cyber operation, attack US commercial satellite asset
Texas News: 2025
TexSpace enters into a legal agreement with the Texas Space Commission to act on behalf of and execute upon the statewide space strategy providing special-purpose vehicles a long with local and state tax incentive opportunities to existing or future Texan space companies
World News: 2025
US claims space-based assets as critical infrastructure from added pressure by state-run space programs
Texas News: 2025
Groundbreaking for fourth generation nuclear power plant
World News: 2025
NASA Artemis 2 carries four astronauts and completes lunar flyby
Texas News: 2025
Texas University Consortium unveils joint educational program from High School STEM programs and internships to doctoral fellowships
World News: 2026
Orbit Fab successfully makes its first financial transaction in GEO and refuels first GEO spacecraft
Texas News: 2026
Provides the first joint special purpose vehicle and local/state financial tax incentive package to select existing and future Texan Space companies
Texas News: 2027
Texas Central Partners announce new high-speed rail route connecting San Antonio to Houston, Austin, and Dallas/Fort Worth with forward thinking statements to Brownsville
World News: 2027
Ad Astra Rocket Company successfully tests first advanced electric nuclear plasma propulsion system (VASIMR engine) for NASA resupply mission
World News: 2028
NASA Artemis 3 - first woman of color steps onto the lunar surface
Texas News: 2028
Multi-use (multi-launch) vertical launch spaceport for suborbital launch to aid commercial and military space operations in Brownsville, Texas
World News: 2029
First space debris remediation mission conducted in LEO
World News: 2029
China lands first humans on lunar surface
World News: 2029
Axiom commercial space station fully operational
World News: 2030
China creates a lunar base with a commercial mining activity laying claim or control to a territory
Texas News: 2032
Texas successfully captures and completes development proposal of the United States Space Force Field Command with dual city bid
World News: 2033
First joint university and medical research conducted on commercial space station
World News: 2035
United States Space Force officially becomes its own military branch separate from the United States Air Force
Texas News: 2035
Texas records the close of the first life cycle of the investment fund and starts coordinating the first fully funded LM-SIF and Exploration Park sourced from the Texas Space Commission and TexSpace
World News: 2035
Groundbreaking for Russia and China international research lunar base
World News: 2036
First full spectrum in-situ mineral analysis is conducted on the lunar surface
Texas News: 2038
Texas State Legislative Session – complete the first self-sustaining infrastructure improvement project not funded through the usage of taxpayer dollars and government programs
World News: 2042
Astroport Space Technologies conducts the first extraction and refinement of materials from lunar regolith
World News: 2050
First lunar settlement operational and embedded in lunar lava tubes