Bigelow Aerospace and NASA announced today that they have signed a $17.8 million fixed price contract under which one of Bigelow’s expandable modules will be attached to the International Space …
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) provided more details today of their agreement for ESA to provide the service module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft. ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain …
The House passed a FY2013 supplemental appropriations act for the victims of Hurricane Sandy (H.R. 152) this evening, including $15 million to cover damages to NASA facilities at Wallops Flight …
President Obama signed into law yesterday the FY2013 Intelligence Authorization Act (S. 3454) and the Space Exploration Sustainability Act (H.R. 6586). Those are the last two space-related bills that we were tracking …
NOAA’s satellites are best known for their role in forecasting the weather, but they also carry transponders for the international Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking System, Cospas-Sarsat. NOAA announced today that …
Although the most probable root cause of an anomaly that left Gazprom’s Yamal 402 satellite in the wrong orbit last month apparently has been identified, the company that arranged for …
Marcia McNutt, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), announced her resignation on Friday, but said she would stay until Landsat 8 is launched in February. USGS operates the Landsat satellites …
One of the worst kept secrets in Washington in the past couple of weeks has been that the Obama Administration will miss the February 4, 2013 deadline for submitting its …
UPDATE: Adds the meeting of NASA’s Small Bodies Assessment Group (think asteroids, comets, NEOs) Monday-Wednesday. The following events may be of interest in the week ahead. The House will in …
Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, announced today that he will not run for reelection in 2014. The committee has jurisdiction over policy …