House appropriators are recommending a budget boost for FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST). The office received $19.8 million for FY2017, but the Trump budget proposal for FY2018 is …
Here is our list of space policy events for the week of July 10-14, 2017 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session …
Vice President Mike Pence promised today to “reorient” the U.S. space program towards human exploration, starting with a return to the Moon and “boots on the face of Mars,” but …
The second launch of China’s Long March 5 rocket (Y2) failed today. A short statement by China’s Xinhua news agency said only that an abnormality was detected and an investigation …
Here is our list of space policy events for the week of July 2-7, 2017 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in recess …
China plans the second launch of its new heavy-lift Long March 5 rocket tomorrow, July 2. It will place the Shijian-18 (SJ-18) communications satellite into geostationary orbit, China’s heaviest satellite …
President Trump signed an Executive Order today reestablishing the White House National Space Council. Created by law in 1988 and operational under the George H.W. Bush Administration, the Council has …
The House Appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA approved its FY2018 funding bill today, while its Senate counterpart held a hearing on the request. These are only the initial steps on …
The House Appropriations Committee released the draft FY2018 Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) appropriations bill today, which funds NASA and NOAA among other agencies. The CJS subcommittee will mark up the bill tomorrow. …
Here is our list of space policy events for the week of June 26-30, 2017 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session …