Referring repeatedly to the “painful choices” that had to be made, Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), presented her agency’s FY2013 budget request at a …
NASA may be ending its plans to launch two Mars spacecraft with the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2016 and 2018, but smaller Mars missions are not out of the …
In addition to the top-line messages of the budget briefings by NASA officials yesterday regarding the FY2013 budget request, a number of other important points were made primarily as answers …
UPDATE: Links to the FCC announcement and its request for comments (due March 1) have been added and the article slightly rewritten accordingly. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has decided to revoke …
Russia succeeded in launching a communications satellite for SES today after two previous attempts were scrubbed. In an anomalous situation for the Russian space launch industry, two previous attempts to …
Marcia McNutt, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), said today that the Obama Administration is “full of fans of Landsat,” but that an affordable solution must be found to …
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has posted information, including fact sheets, about the FY2013 budget request for research and development. OSTP will hold a press …
Leaks to the press last week about the broad outlines of NASA’s FY2013 budget request muted the official roll-out of the budget today, but it is now confirmed that NASA’s …
President Obama’s FY2013 budget request for science and technology (S&T) and research and development (R&D) supports the Administration’s commitment to double the budgets for three “key” science agencies, a list …
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