For the first time in 7 years, the Aviation Subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee held a hearing on commercial space transportation issues on Wednesday. Several Members …
NASA is denying all travel for NASA employees and contractors to the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) conference to be held in Istanbul, Turkey beginning just five weeks from now. …
China confirmed today that it will conduct its first launch from the new Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Hainan Island on Saturday. It will be the first launch of a …
UPDATE, June 24, 2016: The launch was successfully conducted at 10:30 am ET today. ORIGINAL STORY, June 22, 2016: The United Launch Alliance (ULA) is getting ready to launch an …
In a report for the Atlantic Council, Theresa Hitchens and Joan Johnson-Freese argue that the incoming administration needs to relook at U.S. national security space strategy. Instead of relying on …
Here is our list of space policy events for the week of June 20-25, 2016 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session …
The return to flight of Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket will be sometime in August rather than July 6. The company is still analyzing data from its May 31 hot fire …
UPDATE, June 19, 2016: The test was successfully conducted. ORIGINAL STORY, June 17, 2016: Blue Origin will conduct another test launch of its reusable New Shepard rocket on Sunday, June …
UPDATE June 18, 2016, 5:25 am EDT: Soyuz TMA-19M and her three-man crew landed successfully at 5:15 am EDT in Kazakhstan (3:15 pm local time at the landing site) after …
The House passed the FY2017 Defense Appropriations Bill ( H.R. 5293) today by a vote of 282-138. No space-related amendments were adopted so those provisions remain as they were in …