Russia has opened a criminal proceeding regarding the crash of the Proton-M rocket earlier this week. Premature liftoff appears to have been the cause. Citing an Investigative Committee official, Russia’s ITAR-TASS news agency …
The completion of the Shenzhou-10 mission and crew visits to the Tiangong-1 space station naturally raises the question of what’s next for China’s human spaceflight program. Robert (Bob) Christy, founder and …
International Launch Services (ILS), which markets the Proton-M rocket for commercial space launches, issued a relatively upbeat statement today following the dramatic Proton launch failure last night Eastern Daylight Time …
The crash and explosion of a Proton-M rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome last night (Eastern Daylight Time) may delay other launches, including the Progress M-20M cargo spacecraft scheduled for launch to the …
UPDATE 2: Russian media sources have confirmed the failure. A link to a SpacePolicyOnline.com fact sheet with a list of all the Russian space launch failures since December 2010 has …
Things are pretty quiet in the upcoming week because of the July 4th holiday (the House and Senate are both in recess and lots of people are on vacation), so …
The House and Senate Appropriations Committees completed action on the FY2014 funding bill that includes the FAA this week. The two took opposite approaches to funding the FAA’s Office of …
The new Secretaries of Commerce and Transportation have been confirmed by the Senate and Penny Pritzker, the new Secretary of Commerce, was sworn into office yesterday. Pritzker, 54, was confirmed by the Senate …
China’s three-person Shenzhou-10 crew returned to Earth just after 8:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) tonight, June 25 (8:00 am June 26 Beijing time), completing a roughly 15 day mission. They …
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced today that astronomers have discovered more planets around Gliese 667C, a star 22 light years away, and three of the planets are the much …