NRO Changes to Be Announced Next Week?
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair will formally agree to a new “statement of principles” for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) next week, reports …
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair will formally agree to a new “statement of principles” for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) next week, reports …
At an event on Capitol Hill this week, the Space Foundation released a white paper on “Solutions from Space: Space Applications for International Development.” Citing communications satellites and remote sensing …
NASA’s latest prize competition, to improve the design of the gloves that are part of the pressure suits worn by astronauts on spacewalks, was held November 18-19, 2009 at the …
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope was honored with Popular Science magazine’s 2009 Best of What’s New Grand Award and a 2009 Breakthrough Award. Kepler’s task is detecting Earth-like planets around other …
The Survey Committee of the National Research Council’s Planetary Science Decadal Survey met at the NRC’s Beckman Center in Irvine, CA earlier this week. It was the second meeting for …
The following presentations were made to the Survey Committee of the National Research Council’s Planetary Science Decadal Survey on November 16-18, 2009 in Irvine, CA. Titles are from the agenda …
In an op-ed in the November 19 New York Times, Universities Space Research Association (USRA) scientist William S. Marshall asks why the discovery of more water than expected at the …
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC’s) confirmation hearing for Erin Conaton to be the new Under Secretary of the Air Force opened with an intriguing comment from committee chair Senator …
Over three consecutive days this week, European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) Director Kai-Uwe Schrogl introduced his Institute to the Washington space policy community, capping his appearances with testimony to the …
The Japanese government is looking to cut spending for its Fiscal Year 2010 (which begins April 1, 2010) and the space program appears to be one target. Asahi Shimbum reports …