Waiting for Word on Yutu's Fate – UPDATE

Waiting for Word on Yutu's Fate – UPDATE

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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Delight Over ISS Extension, Debate Over Regulations Highlight 2014 FAA Commercial Space Conference

Delight Over ISS Extension, Debate Over Regulations Highlight 2014 FAA Commercial Space Conference

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 …

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Canada Releases New Space Policy Framework

Canada Releases New Space Policy Framework

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 …

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Ruppersberger Worries About Counterspace Threats, Advocates Commercial Space

Ruppersberger Worries About Counterspace Threats, Advocates Commercial Space

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 …

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House Hearing Reveals FAA-COMSTAC Rift on Learning Period for Commercial Human Spaceflight

House Hearing Reveals FAA-COMSTAC Rift on Learning Period for Commercial Human Spaceflight

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 …

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DNI Clapper Cites Russian, Chinese Counterspace Capabilities at Intelligence Committee Hearing

DNI Clapper Cites Russian, Chinese Counterspace Capabilities at Intelligence Committee Hearing

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 …

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