UPDATE: Dragon-in-Space, a website devoted to China’s space program that it says is not affiliated with any government agencies or private organizations, reports that the Shenzhou 9 launch will take place at …
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) told Congress last month that while China’s space program overall continues to expand, individual programs “are facing some challenges in systems reliability.” The increasing pace …
The following events may be of interest in the coming week. The Senate is in session; the House is in recess. Monday, June 11 NASA media teleconference on the status …
Insight into the battle over whether the government should continue to support two commercial companies to provide electro-optical satellite imagery emerged with the release of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) report …
Industry witnesses at a congressional hearing June 6 asked Congress to make permanent the government’s authority to indemnify commercial launch service companies against some of the losses that could result …
NASA astrophysics division director Paul Hertz said today that NASA will stick by its decision to terminate the Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small (GEMS) Explorer mission despite an appeal from …
NASA will hold a media teleconference at noon today, June 7, to discuss cancellation of the Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small (GEMS) Explorer mission. It will be streamed at http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio. …
The deal struck between Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) and NASA over how to conduct future phases of the commercial crew program won another thumbs up today. Wolf’s counterpart on the …
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), an influential Senator on NASA issues, expressed her support for the agreement reached between Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) and NASA on how many companies should …
The Secure World Foundation (SWF) released a report yesterday warning that the dangers of mis-communicating about the threat from an asteroid can be as much a threat as the asteroid itself. SWF …