The House passed the FY2015 defense appropriations bill today (June 20) with the $220 million added to begin building a replacement for Russia’s RD-180 rocket engines intact. Also today, the Obama Administration …
Optimism about completing congressional action on at least some FY2015 appropriations bills earlier than usual hit a wall today (June 19) when the Senate postponed action on a set of …
Five experts explained the utility of space-based systems to enhance Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) at a June 16, 2014 panel discussion hosted by the Secure World Foundation (SWF). SWF Washington …
United Launch Alliance (ULA) President Michael Gass announced today that the company is initiating an advertising campaign to change misperceptions and correct misinformation as its Air Force customer fights a lawsuit …
The White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) on the FY2015 defense appropriations bill this evening. The bill is scheduled for House floor action tomorrow. The White House “strongly …
The Senate Appropriations Committee says that the Senate will begin consideration of a FY2015 “minibus” appropriations bill today that bundles three regular appropriations bills together: Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS, including NASA and NOAA), Transportation-HUD …
The Senate-passed version of the latest Intelligence Authorization bill would require that the Director and Inspector General (IG) of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) be subject to Senate confirmation, as …
Here is our list of upcoming space policy related events for the week of June 16-20, 2014 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate both …
NASA plans to launch next month its first spacecraft dedicated to measuring Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), the leading human-produced greenhouse gas driving climate change, the agency announced on Thursday. …
The head of Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, says that the investigation into the failure of a Proton rocket last month concluded that it was caused by a failed bearing. Russia’s …