Budget reserves held at NASA headquarters will pay for the extra time needed to get the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ready for launch according a NASA official who spoke to an advisory committee today. He asserted that no other NASA astrophysics programs will be affected by the recently announced launch delay.
Here are our tidbits for October 17, 2017: Senate appoints NDAA conferees; Air Force choice for the new A11 slot; Gen. Raymond on reusable rockets; and a scientist blasts the National Space Council. Be sure to check our website for feature stories and follow us on Twitter (@SpcPlcyOnline) for more news and live tweeting of events.
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Bigelow Aerospace announced today that they plan to place a Bigelow B330 expandable module in lunar orbit by the end of 2022 to serve as a “lunar depot” for lunar exploration.
Here are our tidbits for October 16, 2017: SSB/ASEB workshop report on America’s Future in Civil Space, new results from Cassini, and a Ted-Ed video on asteroids. Be sure to check our website for feature stories and follow us on Twitter (@SpcPlcyOnline) for more news and live tweeting of events.
Two neutron stars collided 130 million years ago and the result was — gold. That was the news today from an international team of scientists who presented their findings and the story of how it all unfolded from observations by ground- and space-based observatories around the world — a fusion called “multi-messenger astronomy.”
Laura Delgado López is the new Editor-In-Chief (EIC) of the Journal of Space Policy, published by Elsevier. She succeeds Jill Stuart, who is transitioning to become the publication’s social media editor. The change was effective on October 1.
Here is our list of space policy events for the week of October 15-20, 2017 and any insight we can offer about them. The Senate is in session this week. The House is in recess (except for pro forma sessions).
Here are our tidbits for October 14, 2017: Progress MS-07 gets off this time, but weather scrubs NROL-52 yet again (next attempt is early Sunday morning); and sound barrier breaking anniversaries — with an airplane, and without one. Be sure to check our website for feature stories and follow us on Twitter (SpcPlcyOnline) for more news and live tweeting of events.
Here are our tidbits for today, October 13, 2017: space launches for night owls; dueling Washington Post op-eds on sending people to the Moon or Mars; and the Onion weighs in, too. Be sure to check our website for feature stories, and follow us on Twitter (@SpcPlcyOnline) for more news and live tweeting of events.
Todd May, Director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) said today that NASA will decide the date for the first Space Launch System (SLS) launch “soon.” NASA had been planning for the first launch in December 2018, but recently conceded that it would slip to sometime in 2019 because of a combination of technical challenges and delays caused by severe weather in Louisiana, Texas, and Florida this year.