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 …
Paul Shawcross, Branch Chief for Science and Space at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), accepted the challenge to respond to the “We the People” petition to …
NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) issued its annual report yesterday. NASA’s commercial crew program received considerable attention again this year, especially the “disconnect” between how much funding NASA requests …
NASA’s Planetary Science Division Director (PSD) Jim Green reiterated today that the agency’s anticipated budget for the foreseeable future cannot accommodate a “flagship” mission to the outer planets, but that does …
Hurricane Sandy proved the need for a “super system of environmental intelligence” and more than hugs between the political parties will be required to make that happen argues Nancy Colleton, …
The antitrust section of the Justice Department gave its approval today for the merger of DigitalGlobe and GeoEye. The two commercial satellite imagery companies had announced their plans in July 2012 …
Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the new chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology (HSS&T) Committee, revealed today that under his leadership the committee will have six instead of five …
Robert “Rob” Bednarek, whose career in satellite communications included serving as Chief Technology Officer of PanAmSat and later President and CEO of SES New Skies has died of cancer. He was …
The American Astronomical Society’s (AAS’s) winter meeting is always a time when exciting discoveries in astrophysics are announced and this year does not disappoint. Among the discoveries announced today are 461 …