Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Space Law and Policy - From Rocketships to Resources with Sagi Kfir, Former Senior Counsel, Blue Origin Inc.
Space Law and Policy - From Rocketships to Resources with Sagi Kfir, Former Senior Counsel, Blue Origin Inc.
Hey Spacers!
Listen in to this interview & conversation with host, Rick Tumlinson and guest, Sagi Kfir, Space Industry Attorney.
Sagi Kfir is an attorney and acknowledged leader in the commercial space industry with over 20 years of broad legal experience on matters pertaining to traditional and NewSpace activities. He was the world’s first attorney for a space resource utilization company in his role as General Counsel, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Co-Founder for Deep Space Industries, and was involved in the creation and passage of Title IV of the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015, the first law granting ownership rights to materials extracted from space resources. Sagi also served as Senior Managing Counsel and head of Regulatory and Compliance at Blue Origin, and worked closely with the U.S. administration, federal agencies and Congress on regulatory and policy matters spanning from human suborbital launches to commercial space stations. Sagi served as Chair for the American Bar Association’s Space Law Committee and co-chair for the American Bar Association’s annual Space Law Symposium, and was a member of The Hague International Space Resource Governance Working Group. Prior to his time at DSI and Blue Origin, Sagi served as General Counsel for 10 years at a national aviation company based in San Diego. Sagi first started his legal career in Miami as a litigator in an aerospace-focused law firm. He holds a Juris Doctorate, with honors, from the University of Miami and holds Bachelor of Arts from Johns Hopkins University.
His passions include enabling the human exploration of space beyond Earth’s orbit, yoga and jedis, and maybe not necessarily in that order!
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