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 …
Space Foundation Issues White Paper on "Space Applications for International Development"
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 Awards Prize Money in Glove Competition
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, SpaceX, and ESA Get Awards from Popular Science
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 …
NRC Planetary Science Decadal Survey Committee Update
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 …
NRC Planetary Science Decadal Survey: Presentations to the Steering Committee Meeting November 2009
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 …
USRA Scientist Questions Why Lunar Water Didn't Make More of a Splash
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 …
Will the Under Secretary of the Air Force Still Be DOD Executive Agent for Space?
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 …
ESPI Wows Washington
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 …
Japan's Space Budget Under Stress
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 …