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The national space policy released earlier this month marked the culmination of years of work on various space policy issues. Over the last few years the Bush Administration has released statements on various space-related topics, including remote sensing, exploration, transportation, and navigation. That should cover just about everything, right? Not necessarily. In his presentation at […] The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report yesterday titled “Commercial Space Launches: FAA Needs Continued Planning and Monitoring to Oversee the Safety of the Emerging Space Tourism Industry”. The report is a review of how the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) oversees the safety of commercial launches, and how the office is […] It only took a week and a half, but the new national space policy quietly released on the eve of Columbus Day weekend has finally received some heavyweight mainstream media attention, in the form of a front-page article in today’s Washington Post. The article is a fairly basic review of the policy, with a not-unexpected […] A proposal by European officials to allow military use of the Galileo satellite navigation system has could cause new friction with the US and cost it one international partner. According to an article from the British newspaper The Independent (via the Belfast Telegraph), European transport commissioner Jacques Barrot has suggested that military users of Galileo […] It’s not uncommon in the US for NASA officials to defend, either to members of Congress or the general public, the sums of money that are spent on the space program. However, it’s a bit surprising to see a Chinese official in the same situation. According to a Reuters report, China National Space Administration head […] Looking for some insightful commentary and analysis regarding the national space policy released late last week by the Bush Administration? Well, keep looking. There hasn’t been a lot of commentary in general about the document, and what little has been published has focused, not surprisingly, on the portions of the document dealing with security and […] Earlier this year Boeing agreed to pay $615 million to the federal government to settle claims that Boeing used proprietary Lockheed Martin documents during the initial EELv competition in the 1990s. Now the government is figuring out where that money will go, the Wall Street Journal reports. (Subscription required; a free AP article is also […] CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric discussed NASA yesterday (on the 49th anniversary of Sputnik) in her one-minute “Katie Couric’s Notebook” that airs on some TV and radio stations. (I heard it in the car on the way home last night.) Couric talks up the achievements of the Space Age, including that we have “orbited […] That would finally seem to be the case, 17 months and one day after the joint venture was first announced. The FTC announced today that it would “intervene” in the formation of the ULA, meaning it has created a consent decree that will allow the ULA to come into being under some conditions. Those requirements […] That’s Gov. Jeb Bush, mind you, who paid a visit to Cape Canaveral last Thursday, Florida Today reports, talking up the economic development potential of Orion at KSC. That’s a topic of much concern in the area, as the shuttle program—which employs thousands—winds down, and Orion to date is only providing KSC with a few […] |
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