ESA Studying New European Launcher Needs
The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded two study contracts to look at what new launch vehicle it should develop as part of its New European Launch Service (NELS) initiative. …
GAO Gives DOD Mixed Report Card on EELV Acquisition
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) gave the Department of Defense (DOD) mixed grades on how well the department is responding to earlier GAO recommendations on how to improve its acquisition …
Former NASA Administrators Griffin and Frosch to Address NRC Committee Tomorrow
Former NASA Administrators Robert Frosch and Michael Griffin will share their views on NASA’s future tomorrow at a meeting of a National Research Council committee tasked with providing advice on …
Marshall Institute Meeting on Potential Impact of Sequestration on Space Industrial Base Tomorrow
The Marshall Institure and the Space Enterprise Council will hold another in their “Day without Space” seminar series tomorrow. This time the topic is the potential impact of sequestration on …
Aerojet Parent Buys Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Boley New Aerojet President
July 23 must be a good day for mergers and acquisitions. In addition to the announcement earlier today that DigitalGlobe and GeoEye will merge, GenCorp announced that it is acquiring …
GeoEye and DigitalGlobe To Merge
The two U.S. commercial remote sensing satellite comanies, GeoEye and DigitalGlobe, announced this morning that they will merge. Coincidentally or not, the announcement comes on the 40th anniiversary of the …
Sally Ride Loses Battle with Cancer
Former NASA astronaut Sally Ride died today after losing her battle with pancreatic cancer. A physicist, Dr. Ride was the first American woman in space and spent the rest of …
Events of Interest: Week of July 22-28, 2012 – UPDATE
UPDATE: The Senate Commerce Committee’s Wednesday hearing on the International Space Station has been added in Group 2. ORIGINAL STORY: The following events may be of interest in the week …
House Passes Defense Appropriations, Speculation Continues on End Game as Aerospace Industry Worries
The House passed the FY2013 defense appropriations bill (H.R. 5856) yesterday, approving $606 billion — a core budget of $518 billion plus $88 billion for Overseas Contingency Operations including the war in …
Japan Readies for Launch of Cargo Ship to ISS on July 20 EDT–update
UPDATE: HTV-3 (Kounotori-3) was successfully launched at 10:06 pm EDT on July 20. ORIGINAL STORY: As America celebrates the 43rd anniversary of the first human landing on the Moon tomorrow, …