Orbital Sciences Corporation announced today that it is targeting the August/September time frame for its next test flight of the Antares rocket as part of NASA’s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services …
UPDATE: Adds another hearing on the FY2014 Air Force budget request; this one by Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee on Wednesday. The following events may be of interest in the week …
Two subcommittees of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee will hold a hearing next week to learn about exoplanet discoveries, with witnesses from NASA, NSF, and the SETI Institute. …
NASA and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, signed an extension of the contract under which Russia transports crews to and from the International Space Station (ISS). The extension provides for launches …
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo (SS2) fired its rocket engines in flight for the first time today, bringing the company a step closer to flying commercial passengers on suborbital space voyages. Nine years …
Christina Chaplain of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) was asked for GAO’s assessment of disaggregation at a Senate hearing last week. GAO has several studies underway, she replied, and it …
The following events may be of interest in the week ahead. The House and Senate both are in recess this week. During the Week After an intense two weeks, the …
At two congressional hearings last week, Air Force Space Command (AFSC) Commander Gen. William Shelton warned about the “chaos” created in his command because of sequestration, saying its effects “cannot …
A House Armed Services Committee (HASC) subcommittee asked a Defense of Department (DOD) official on Thursday if he knew of DOD leasing any commercial satellite services from companies with significant ownership by the …
Russia’s Progress M-19M robotic cargo spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on schedule this morning even though one of the navigation antennas did not deploy. Russian ground …