SpacePolicyOnline.com’s fact sheets on the FY2016 budget requests for NASA and NOAA’s satellite programs have been updated to reflect the latest congressional action on the proposed final omnibus appropriations bill. …
The House and Senate quickly passed another short-term Continuing Resolution (CR) today to keep the government operating until Tuesday, December 22. The goal is to pass the full-year omnibus appropriations …
The FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) will get $17.8 million for FY2016 in the final version of the appropriations bill congressional negotiators agreed to overnight. It is more …
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) took to the floor of the Senate today to lambaste two colleagues on the Senate Appropriations Committee for eviscerating language McCain included in the DOD authorization …
Congress reached agreement on a FY2016 appropriations bill overnight. NASA will get $19.285 billion, $785 million more than the President’s request and $1.285 billion more than FY2015. Division B (Commerce-Justice-Science) …
NOAA got an early Christmas present overnight as Congress reached agreement on a final FY2016 appropriations bill. The Polar Follow On (PFO) will get its full $370 million funding request …
UPDATE, December 15, 2015, 8:50 pm EST: The crew successfully docked with ISS a bit later than expected because of a problem with the Kurs automated docking system. Soyuz TMA-19M …
A key Member of Congress and two congressional staff expounded on congressional intent in the recently enacted commercial space law at a space law and policy conference in Washington, D.C. …
Here’s our list of upcoming space policy events (updated December 14 to add a link to the list of AGU sessions that will be livestreamed). This version covers the three …
Congress passed a 5-day extension to the deadline for funding the government for the rest of the fiscal year today. The bill, H.R. 2250, passed the House by voice vote. …