A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5, 2018 rocket lifted off Jan. 19 carrying the U.S. Air Force's SBIRS GEO Flight 4 satellite.

The former chairman of the House aviation subcommittee and adviser to United Launch Alliance argues that all commercial spaceflight companies should support, rather than disrupt, the FAA’s ongoing effort to streamline existing launch licensing processes.

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Brian Berger is editor in chief of SpaceNews.com and the SpaceNews magazine. He joined SpaceNews.com in 1998, spending his first decade with the publication covering NASA. He was named senior staff writer in 2004, a position he held until being named...