Get Your Cube Quest Challenge Entries Ready!
Registration for NASA’s Cube Quest (CQ) Challenge opens on December 2, 2014. Prizes are offered for putting a cubesat into stable lunar orbit or for communicating the most amount of data …
Culberson Named New House Appropriations CJS Chair
The House Appropriations Committee announced today that Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) will succeed Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) as chair of the Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee in the 114th Congress. Wolf is …
ATK Continues To Support Merger with Orbital Sciences
In an investors call this afternoon, ATK confirmed that its Board of Directors continues to support its merger with Orbital Sciences Corporation despite the October 28 Antares launch failure. The …
Images Show Philae's First Bounce, Ulamec Optimistic Will Hear from It Again
The European Space Agency (ESA) today released new images taken by its Rosetta spacecraft of the Philae lander as it made a first landing on Comet 67P and then bounced on …
Looking For a Job In Space Policy? NASA's Got an Opening – But Hurry!
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) has an opening for a public policy expert to join its policy team. Applications are due by November 24, 2014. The posting is on the …
What's Happening in Space Policy November 17-21, 2014
Here is our list of space policy events in the coming week, November 17-21, 2014, and any insights we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in session. …
NASA IG Adds Voice to Chorus that NASA Lacks Adequate Funding
Echoing what reports from expert groups have been saying for many years, NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) yesterday warned that the biggest challenge facing NASA is getting the budgets …
Is Philae's Time Coming to an End? – UPDATE
UPDATE, November 14, 5:33 pm EST: The European Space Operations Center (ESOC) just tweeted (@esaoperations) that it has reacquired Philae. The first contact was brief, but the signal was then …
Philae Works Hard To The End — And it May Not Be The End – UPDATE
UPDATED throughout on November 15, 2014 (originally published November 14) Despite the odds, the European Space Agency (ESA) was able to restore contact with its Philae lander on the surface …
ULA's Tory Bruno Vows To Transform Company
Alluding to what he described as a moment of exciting change for the commercial launch industry, the newly appointed head of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) discussed how his company, …