As NASA’s deep-space human exploration plans gain momentum, policy makers must avoid subjecting the agency to fluctuations in goals, ambiguous objectives and inadequate budgets, a report says.
The Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics (Asteria) sat effort to miniaturize a spacecraft for extrasolar planet detection, has gone quiet.
SpaceX has opened what it hopes will be a bustling 2020 launch manifest of 35-38 missions with the Jan. 6 liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a third batch of Starlink broadband comm sats.
The USAF and Boeing are working to produce a new variant of the next sat in a constellation that provides high-capacity broadband comms to U.S. forces globally within five years.
Efforts to better identify and assess potential impact threats to Earth from asteroids and comets with a compact, space-based IR telescope have received a boost from President Trump.
A new U.S. Army program will demo an intel-collecting system with three powerful sensing capabilities in one year and attempt to field the system on a new airborne surveillance fleet starting in five years.
President Trump is expected to sign two minibus appropriations bills that include a provision allowing NASA to buy more Russian Soyuz seats to launch U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station.
