NASA’s International Sun/Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE-3) will return to the Earth’s vicinity tomorrow (Sunday, August 10), after more than 30 years of zipping through space. The ISEE-3 Reboot Project and its …
NASA is postponing two U.S. spacewalks planned for August 21 and August 29 because of concerns about fuses in the batteries used in the U.S. spacesuits. A Russian spacewalk remains …
Khrunichev State Research and Space Production Center has a new President today (August 7) as Russia continues to reform its space sector in the wake of a series of rocket …
Russia’s decision to retaliate against the United States, the European Union (EU) and other countries that have imposed sanctions because of Russia’s activities in Ukraine does not, at this time, …
Update, August 6, 2014: “We’re at the comet!” The final 6-miinute burn to put Rosetta into its rendezvous position next to 67P occurred nominally today. ESOC received the confirmatory signal …
Here is our list of space policy-related events for the week of August 3-10, 2014 and any insight we can offer about them. Congress is in recess until September 8. …
NASA’s plan to send humans to retrieve asteroid samples in the next decade is not driven by science, acknowledged many participants at NASA’s 11th Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) meeting …
As the House readies to adjourn for the August recess, the House Intelligence Committee today released a bipartisan report on how to save money in the procurement of intelligence satellites. …
The NASA Advisory Council (NAC) wants NASA to obtain an independent cost and technical estimate of the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) before it chooses – “downselects” – between two options …
Updated August 1, 2014: This article was updated with links to two other SpacePolicyOnline.com stories that appeared in subsequent days on related meetings. See end. July 30, 2014: The NASA …