The merger of the country’s two commercial satellite imagery companies, DigitalGlobe and GeoEye, is now complete. DigitalGlobe President Jeffrey Tarr said the merged companies have a market capitalization of $2.1 …
NASA will hold a workshop at Marshall Space Flight Center next week to discuss concepts for using the two large space telescopes it inherited from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) …
At an event this morning focused on parsing out the pros and cons of disaggregation, the latest buzzword to hit the military space community, experts called for an evolved and …
Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) and Lockheed Martin announced today that they will work together on the Dream Chaser spacecraft SNC is building. SNC is one of three companies receiving funding …
UPDATE, January 31, 2013 EST): South Korea has confirmed that the satellite is functioning properly. Also, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland commented on the difference between South Korea’s and North …
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) today announced the Republican and Democratic membership of its seven subcommittees. The subcommittee on Strategic Forces has jurisdiction over most military space programs. HASC is chaired …
PBS will air “Space Shuttle Columbia: Mission of Hope” beginning January 31. The program tells the story of the Torah brought along on Columbia’s last mission by crewmember Ilan Ramon of the …
UPDATE, January 30, 2013: President Obama signed the bill into law last night. ORIGINAL STORY, January 29, 2013: Exactly one month after it initially passed legislation to help victims of …
Iran revealed today that it successfully sent a monkey into space on a suborbital flight and retrieved it alive as a first step in sending humans into space. The U.S. State …
The following events may be of interest in the coming week. The Senate is in session; the House is in recess. During the Week: Honoring the Astronauts Who Lost Their …