Wendy Whitman Cobb

Wendy Whitman Cobb appears in As space launches increase, there aren’t enough spaceports as a space-policy scholar emphasizing the scarcity of viable U.S. launch geography. After Daniel Ackerman lays out the criteria for launch sites, Cobb says very few areas in the United States still meet those combined requirements.

Her contribution is to make Spaceport Siting Constraint a structural bottleneck rather than an ordinary permitting delay. Even if the FAA reduces regulatory burdens, launch capacity remains bounded by geography, population exposure, ports, airspace, and environmental sensitivity.

Connections

• Marketplace Tech - source program.
• Spaceport Siting Constraint and Space Launch Capacity Bottleneck - main concepts she supports.
• Federal Aviation Administration and Space Launch Environmental Review - regulatory context for the capacity debate.