Space Policy Events for the Weeks of August 11-23, 2013
The following space policy events may be of interest in the next two weeks — for anyone who’s not on vacation! Enjoy! (Congress returns on September 9.) Sunday-Thursday, August 11-15 …
NRC Warns Landsat-Type Data Not Sustainable Under Current Practices
The National Research Council (NRC) today issued its much-anticipated report on how to ensure continuity of Landsat-type land imaging data. The bottom line is that a sustained program is not …
Senate Appropriators Cut, Reconfigure EELV FY2014 Funding, Add Money for ORS
The Senate Appropriations Committee cut $150 million from DOD’s FY2014 funding request for procurement of Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles (EELVs) and split the remaining funds into two separate accounts. It also …
Holdren, Bolden Praise Garver
Presidential Science Adviser John Holdren and NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden praised outgoing Deputy Administrator Lori Garver today for her dedicated service. Garver revealed yesterday that she is leaving NASA after …
Russia's Rokot Launch Vehicle Also Readying for Return to Flight
Russia’s spate of launch vehicle failures includes a January 2013 malfunction of a Rokot-Briz combination that left three small military communications satellites in the wrong orbit and one of them nonfunctional. Rokot …
Lori Garver Leaving NASA
NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced today that she is leaving NASA effective September 6. In an email, Garver said that she has accepted a position in the private sector outside …
Rogozin Lashes Out at Roscosmos, Popovkin Reprimanded
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin lashed out at Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, and the space sector generally at a meeting in Moscow today, three days after Roscosmos director Vladimir Popovkin …
Space Policy Events for the Weeks of August 5-18, 2013
It’s vacation time almost everywhere, so there are few space policy-related events coming up. There are some, though, and we’ve combined the next two weeks in the list below. Congress …
McCarthy Introduces SOARS Act to Streamline Commercial Spaceflight Regs
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) introduced a bill yesterday to streamline the regulatory process for commercial suborbital and orbital spaceflight. The Suborbital and Orbital Advancement and Regulatory Streamlining (SOARS) Act, H.R. 3038, is …
Kathy Sullivan Nominated as NOAA Administrator
Former astronaut Kathy Sullivan was nominated by President Obama yesterday to become Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and the new administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration …