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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …