The dizzying images of swirling clouds in NOAA’s fast-paced video may make you wish you’d taken some Dramamine first, but it is a nifty salute to the GOES-12 weather satellite upon its retirement. …
The following space policy events may be of interest in the weeks ahead. It’s a quiet time in the space policy world as many people squeeze in last minute vacations …
China is the midst of conducting unusual satellite maneuvers involving a new satellite launched last month and an older satellite in orbit for eight years. Exactly what capabilities the Chinese …
Purely by coincidence, if all goes according to plan September 15 will be a big day for a venerable Russian rocket recovering from a recent spectacular failure as well as …
Describing some of the Curiosity mission’s discoveries in the rover’s first year on Mars during a lecture commemorating its anniversary, Deputy Project Scientist Dr. Ashwin Vasavada explained that the high …
NASA announced today that it has abandoned efforts to restore full operational capability to its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. Kepler’s principal investigator Bill Borucki made clear that doesn’t mean the …
On the same day that NASA and the U.S. Navy tested operations for recovering the Orion spacecraft from an ocean landing, NASA’s Inspector General (IG) issued a report warning that …
Air Force Space Command (AFSC) issued a press release today highlighting another casualty of sequestration — the “space fence” that detects space objects circling Earth. AFSC was careful in the text of …
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 …
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 …