Space Policy Events for the Week of November 18-22, 2013
The following events may be of interest in the week ahead. The House and Senate are in session. During the Week NASA’s launch of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) …
Lots of Meetings But No Unified Message on Future Space Exploration
Four meetings in Washington, D.C. over this past week addressed the future of space exploration, but no unified message emerged. There was a focus on the role of the entrepreneurial NewSpace …
NASA IG Warns on Commercial Crew as NASA Celebrates End of COTS
On the same day NASA and its commercial cargo partners gave themselves a pat on the back for completing the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) development program, NASA’s Inspector General …
Tom Young IRT Report to NOAA: Urgent Need for JPSS Gap-Filler
An Independent Review Team (IRT) chaired by Tom Young today issued an urgent call to build a “gap-filler” for NOAA’s polar orbiting weather satellite program and make the system robust. The IRT is keeping …
Breathtaking View of Saturn, Mars, Earth, Venus from Cassini
NASA released another breathtaking image of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft today. In this one, Mars, Earth and Venus can be seen in the background, though all are mere …
U.S. and Non-U.S. Space Agency Reps to Discuss International Cooperation in Space
On November 19, the American Astronautical Society will host a panel discussion on Capitol Hill on international cooperation in space. Representatives of NASA and four non-U.S. space agencies will share …
India's Mars Mission Has Hiccup, Supplemental Engine Burn Planned Today – UPDATE
UPDATE, November 11, 2013, 9:15 pm EST: ISRO reports that the supplementary burn was successful and the spacecraft’s apogee is now 118,642 km. ORIGINAL STORY, November 11, 2013, 3:23 pm …
Space Policy Events for the Week of November 11-17, 2013
The following events may be of interest in the week ahead. Once again we are defining the “week” to last through next Sunday since there are MAVEN-related activities that day before …
Three ISS Crew Back Home, While Six Remain in Space
Three International Space Station (ISS) crew members returned to Earth tonight in their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft. Six colleagues remain aboard the orbiting laboratory. NASA’s Karen Nyberg, Russia’s Fyodor Yurchikhin and …
ISS Crewmembers Take Olympic Torch on Spacewalk
Two Russian cosmonauts took part in the Olympic torch relay today as the torch makes its way to Sochi, Russia for the Winter Olympics. The cosmonauts, Oleg Kotov and Sergey …