In its report on the FY2011 defense appropriations bill (S. 3800, S. Rept. 111-295), the Senate Appropriations Committee calculates the cost of cancelling the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System …
The following events may be of interest in the coming week. For more information, see our calendar on the right menu or click the links below. Monday (Sept. 20) NASA …
Analysis from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) topographic map of the Moon featured in the most recent issue of Science (subscription required) points to the Moon’s “complex, turbulent youth,” according …
Discovering the nature of dark energy is the top scientific priority for astronomy and astrophysics as indicated in the National Research Council’s Astro2010 Decadal Survey released last month. It set …
NASA continued to woo the U.S. space astronomy community today hoping that it will agree to NASA’s proposal to increase its potential participation in the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) proposed …
Today the Senate Appropriations Committee approved the FY2011 defense appropriations bill that emerged from subcommittee on Tuesday, but on a party-line vote, 18-12. Ordinarily defense appropriations is a bipartisan measure. …
Despite earlier pessimism about the chances of the Senate bringing up the Department of Defense (DOD) authorization bill (S. 3454), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has decided not only …
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will hold a seminar on “Space and the Biological Economy — Driving the Lift” on Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 1:00 pm …
For anyone interested in working in commercial spaceflight in New Mexico, see this press release.
The Senate defense appropriations subcommittee (SAC-D) marked up the FY2011 defense appropriations bill today recommending zero funding for DOD’s portion of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) that …