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The House Science and Technology Committee today announced its roster of members and subcommittee assignments. As expected, Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO) will be the chairman of the space and aeronautics committee, with Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) becoming the ranking minority member, flip-flopping the roles the two had in the previous Congress. The rest of the […] In his State of the Union address last night, President Bush said that next month he will “submit a budget that eliminates the federal deficit within the next five years.” Nevermind, of course, that the five-year goal has little meaning since in two years a new president, doubtless with new budget plans, will be in […] I am going to be doing some upgrades and other technical work on this blog over the next week or so (I’m using essentially the same version of Movable Type as when this blog started three years ago; it’s time for a change). All of this work should be behind the scenes, but it’s possible […] The one major development in the China ASAT saga in the last 24 hours was news that China officially admitted that it carried out the test, although it claims that it is still interested in the “peaceful development of outer space” and that the nation “has never, and will never, participate in any form of […] This weekend provided more opportunity for commentary about China’s ASAT test earlier this month, but also very little news. China continues to remain silent about the test, and that silence is the subject of much speculation in the US, the New York Times reports this morning. Some Americans officials, such as National Security Adviser Stephen […] While the US and a number of other countries are condemning the test of an ASAT weapon by the Chinese, Russian defense minister Sergei Ivanov is taking a very different tack, claiming that the test actually did not take place. “I have heard such rather unsubstantiated reports, and I am afraid they are unfounded,” RIA […] The news first announced Wednesday night that China tested an ASAT weapon last week, destroying a satellite, became one of the biggest stories internationally yesterday. The report was confirmed by a National Security Council spokesman yesterday morning, and by the end of the day the US and other countries, including Canada, Japan, Australia, and South […] Earlier this week the National Academy of Sciences released a report on the state of Earth sciences from space. The report warned that the existing fleet of Earth science spacecraft could degrade significantly in the next decade because of decreased funding for such programs, especially at NASA. Without a new generation of Earth science missions, […] Remember all the debate in the weeks and months following the release of the new national space policy that the US was opening the door to the weaponization of space—and perhaps imperiling the security of its own space assets—by appearing to go down the road of space weaponization? Now comes work from Aviation Week that […] For those of you interested in the new national space policy and its implications for national security, the Marshall Institute is hosting an event Monday morning, January 22nd, titled “Forum on National Security Space – Space Issues in 2007″. The three-hour hour event, held at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, is intended to “examine […] |
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