National Security Space Association’s Plan For the Next President
“The United States lacks a comprehensive long-term strategy to protect our interests against Chinese aggression in, from, and to space.”
Stories about US and international civil space missions, including those led by NASA and ESA.
“The United States lacks a comprehensive long-term strategy to protect our interests against Chinese aggression in, from, and to space.”
NASA generated almost $76B for the economy in fiscal 2023—generating an outsized impact with its .5% of the federal budget.
Incoming US policymakers must slash regulatory red tape and boost investment in commercial space tech, according to The Aerospace Corporation.
SpaceX will pause Falcon 9 launches after an anomaly.
NASA is kickin’ it up a notch on a SSPICY mission to check out a defunct sat in LEO. Starfish Space will work on the program—formally known as the Small Spacecraft Propulsion and Inspection Capability mission—under a Phase III SBIR contract from the space agency worth $15M over three years, NASA announced on Wednesday. A […]
“We sell minutes on the network, something like a million minutes a year, to NASA.”
“It’s time to repair the roof. And I use that literally, because we were in several facilities where the roof was literally leaking.”
Since GPS became operational in 1993, the US has been far and away the leader in satellite navigation technology. But the landscape is rapidly changing, and international alternatives are catching up.
What was originally a $383M contract to be finished by 2023 has ballooned into potentially $2.7B construction that won’t see completion until 2029.
Over the past two weeks, two federal watchdogs—the OIG and the GAO—released separate reports highlighting critical issues with two Artemis IV vehicles: Gateway and SLS Block 1B, the upgraded SLS variant.
While SpaceX’s proposal will significantly increase in the amount of rocket traffic above Boca Chica, the FAA found the impact to the environment should be minimal.
US and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to improve cooperation on various civil space priorities.