UPDATE, February 12, 9:30 am ET: China’s official news agency, Xinhua, still has not posted any news about Yutu on its English language website (http://www.news.cn/english/). However, @jeff_foust and @cosmic_penguin separately …
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The FAA’s annual Commercial Space Transportation conference covered a lot of ground this week (February 5-6, 2014), but two topics were highlights: the Obama Administration’s recent decision to extend operations …
Canada’s Minister of Industry, James Moore, and the President of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Gen. (Ret.) Walter Natynczyk, released Canada’s new framework for space policy today. The policy starts …
Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) pressed Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper about other countries’ counterspace capabilities at a House Intelligence Committee hearing yesterday. Though it seems an unusual …
George Nield, FAA’s Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation, left no doubt today that he disagrees with a recommendation from his advisory committee, COMSTAC, to extend the “learning period” for …
Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) told an auditorium full of workers on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) today that “I saved you from the Tea Party,” which wanted to cut …
The following space policy events may be of interest in the week ahead. The House and Senate are in session. During the Week Among the highlights this week is the …
Today is the NASA Day of Remembrance 2014 honoring the astronauts who lost their lives in spaceflights. The day honors the crews of Apollo 1 (AS-204), Challenger (STS-51L) and Columbia …
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper noted — if briefly — Russian and Chinese counterspace capabilities in an assessment of worldwide threats at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing yesterday. Clapper …