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Posted: September 4, 2024 10:32 pm ET | Last Updated: September 4, 2024 10:32 pm ET | Boeing's Starliner Crew Flight Test capsule is ready to come home on September 6, 2024. The capsule will be empty because NASA is concerned about the Reaction Control System thrusters, five of which...
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on Sep 5
NASA Identifies Root Cause of Orion Heat Shield Char Loss
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Posted: October 28, 2024 12:56 pm ET | Last Updated: October 28, 2024 1:07 pm ET | NASA has identified the root cause of the unexpected char loss on the Orion heat shield during the Artemis I uncrewed test flight in 2022. Testing is ongoing to determine a solution for the next mission, Artemis...
on Oct 29
Crew-8 Astronaut Released from Hospital, Back in Houston
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Posted: October 26, 2024 4:05 pm ET | Last Updated: October 26, 2024 5:09 pm ET | The NASA astronaut who was hospitalized after returning from eight months on the International Space Station has been released and is now back in Houston. NASA declines to identify the astronaut for privacy reasons.
on Oct 28
Boeing Takes Another $250 Million Charge for Starliner
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Posted: October 23, 2024 3:36 pm ET | Last Updated: October 23, 2024 3:41 pm ET | Boeing took another $250 million charge against earnings today for the Starliner program for the third quarter 2024. That brings the total the company has spent so far of its own money to $1.85 billion under the...
on Oct 24
SpaceX Confirms Next Starship Test Will Try to Catch the Booster
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Posted: October 7, 2024 11:56 pm ET | Last Updated: October 8, 2024 12:18 am ET | SpaceX confirmed today that it will try to catch Starship's Super Heavy booster as part of its next Integrated Flight Test, IFT-5. The company also said the test flight could take place as early as Sunday, October...
on Oct 8
What’s Happening in Space Policy October 6-12, 2024
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Posted: October 6, 2024 11:33 am ET | Last Updated: October 6, 2024 3:21 pm ET | Get SpacePolicyOnline.com's list of space policy events for the week of Octber 6-12, 2024 including the launch of ESA's Hera planetary defense mission, hopefully the launch of NASA's Europa Clipper, a Blue Origin...
on Oct 6
ESA’s Hera Ready to Go When SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Resumes Flight
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Posted: October 3, 2024 8:09 pm ET | Last Updated: October 3, 2024 8:23 pm ET | ESA's Hera planetary defense mission is getting ready to launch on October 7, 2024, but needs to wait until SpaceX's Falon 9 rocket returns to flight after a second stage anomaly on September 28.
on Oct 4
SpaceX Complains of Starship Licensing Delay As House Committee Questions FAA Regs
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Posted: September 11, 2024 10:21 pm ET | Last Updated: September 11, 2024 11:58 pm ET | A House committee hearing on September 10, 2024 criticized FAA's regulation of the commercial space launch industry for stifling innovation. In particular, members are concerned that licensing delays could...
on Sep 13
FAA Suspends Falcon 9 Launches To Investigate Landing Failure
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Posted: August 28, 2024 11:42 pm ET | Last Updated: August 28, 2024 11:42 pm ET | The FAA is requiring an investigation before allowing SpaceX to resume launches of the Falcon 9 rocket following a rare landing failure on August 28, 2024. Booster B1062 made a hard landing on the done ship...
on Aug 29
SpaceX Denies Violating Environmental Regulations at Starbase
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Posted: August 12, 2024 7:22 pm ET | Last Updated: August 12, 2024 7:22 pm ET | CNBC reports that SpaceX is violating Texas and federal environmental regulations with the water deluge system it uses for Starship at Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. SpaceX denies the allegation.
on Aug 16
ESA Gets Go Ahead to Begin Work on Apophis Mission
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Posted: July 19, 2024 6:17 pm ET | Last Updated: July 19, 2024 6:20 pm ET | ESA is beginning work on a mission to study the asteroid Apophis before it makes a close approach to Earth in April 2029. The Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety, or RAMSES, will reach Apophis about two months before...
on Jul 21
Ariane 6 Lifts Off, But Second Stage Anomaly Spoils the Day
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Posted: July 9, 2024 6:10 pm ET | Last Updated: July 9, 2024 7:36 pm ET | Europe's Ariane 6 rocket lifted off successfully from Kourou, French Guiana on July 9, 2024, but a problem with the second stage spoiled the day.
on Jul 10
Four Analog Astronauts Complete 378-Day Practice Mars Mission
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Posted: July 6, 2024 9:44 pm ET | Last Updated: July 6, 2024 9:47 pm ET | NASA's CHAPEA-1 crew completed its Mars simulation mission on July 6, 2024 after 378 days in isolation in a simulated Mars habitat at Johnson Space Center.
on Jul 7
Date for Boeing Starliner CFT Return Still Up in the Air
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Posted: June 28, 2024 11:58 pm ET | Last Updated: June 29, 2024 12:59 am ET | NASA and Boeing said today they will not announce a date for the Starliner Crew Flight Test to return home until after tests are conducted on the ground that could require more testing on orbit.
on Jun 29
New NOAA Weather Satellite On Its Way to GEO
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Posted: June 25, 2024 11:38 pm ET | Last Updated: June 25, 2024 11:44 pm ET | A SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched NOAA's newest weather satellite, GOES-U, into a geostationary transfer orbit on June 25, 2024. The satellite will use its own propulsion system to reach geostationary orbit over the next...
on Jun 27
Tabletop Exercise Illuminates Gaps in Responding to Theoretical Asteroid Threats
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Posted: June 20, 2024 11:45 pm ET | Last Updated: June 20, 2024 11:45 pm ET | NASA had released a summary of an April 2024 tabletop exercise that brought together U.S. and international agencies to address options for responding to threats posed by asteroids. It was the fifth asteroid tabletop...
on Jun 26
Starliner Will Stay an Extra Few Days at ISS for Additional Tests
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Posted: June 15, 2024 5:17 pm ET | Last Updated: June 15, 2024 5:20 pm ET | NASA and Boeing have decided to keep the Starliner Crew Flight Test docked to the International Space Station for a few more days. The new landing date is June 22, but could change again.
on Jun 25
Starliner CFT Slips Again With No New Date Set
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Posted: May 22, 2024 12:40 am ET | Last Updated: May 22, 2024 12:40 am ET | Boeing's Starliner Crew Flight Test will not take place on May 25, 2024, but is slipping again. A new date has not been set.
on May 22
Soyuz MS-25 Crew Launch Aborts Seconds Before Liftoff
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Posted: March 21, 2024 11:08 am ET | Last Updated: March 21, 2024 11:21 am ET | Russia's Soyuz MS-25 launch of three crew to the International Space Station aborted 20 seconds before liftoff today, March 21, 2024.
on Mar 21
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Posted: March 12, 2024 6:54 am ET | Last Updated: March 12, 2024 7:33 am ET | Crew-7 returned to Earth this morning after 199 days in space, 197 of them on the International Space Station. They splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola.
on Mar 12
Senate Passes Another Extension for the FAA and the “Learning Period”
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Posted: March 7, 2024 4:24 pm ET | Last Updated: March 7, 2024 4:48 pm ET | Congress has passed another extension to the learning period or moratorium under which the FAA is prohibited from promulating commercial human spaceflight regulations. This new extension is through May 11, 2024.
on Mar 9
White House: Russia Developing “Troubling” ASAT Capability, But Not Immediate Threat
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Posted: February 15, 2024 7:52 pm ET | Last Updated: February 15, 2024 8:09 pm ET | The White House is tamping down concern that Russia is developing an on-orbit nuclear antisatellite weapon that poses an immediate threat to U.S. satellites. Spokesman John Kirby said the system is still in...
on Feb 16
Space Council Gets Not Only More Members, But Expanded Authority in New E.O.
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Posted: December 7, 2021 5:00 pm ET | Last Updated: December 7, 2021 5:21 pm ET | Find out what changes were made by President Biden in issuing his Executive Order on the National Space Council on December 1, 2021.
on Jan 7
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Posted: December 20, 2023 12:02 pm ET | Last Updated: December 20, 2023 12:24 pm ET | Vice President Kamala Harris will lead a meeting of the National Space Council on December 20, 2023 and announce that an international astronaut will join U.S. astronauts on a lunar landing mission later this...
on Dec 20
GAO: 2025 Unlikely for First Artemis Lunar Landing, Maybe 2027
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Posted: December 1, 2023 6:15 pm ET | Last Updated: December 1, 2023 6:15 pm ET | The Government Accountability Office's (GAO's) latest report on NASA's Artemis program found it is unlikely the agency will be able to meet its schedule to return astronauts to the lunar surface in 2025. ...
on Dec 3
Steve Jurczyk, Former NASA Leader, Passes Away
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Posted: November 25, 2023 11:49 am ET | Last Updated: November 25, 2023 1:06 pm ET | Steve Jurczyk, whose 32-year NASA career saw him rise to the very top of agency leadership, passed away on November 23, 2023 from pancreatic cancer. He was Director of NASA's Langley Research Center, Associate...
on Nov 26
At Least 15 Starship Launches Needed to Execute Artemis III Lunar Landing
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Posted: November 17, 2023 4:07 pm ET | Last Updated: November 17, 2023 5:30 pm ET | A NASA official today said the number of SpaceX Starship launches needed to execute the Artemis III lunar landing mission is in the
on Nov 25
California Lawmakers Urge NASA Not To Cut Mars Sample Return Funding
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Posted: November 22, 2023 10:09 pm ET | Last Updated: November 22, 2023 10:09 pm ET | Six bipartisan members of California's congressional delegation led by Rep. Adam Schiff sent a letter to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson today urging him not to cut back spending on the Mars Sample Return...
on Nov 23, 2023
NASA “Pauses” Mars Sample Return Program While Assessing Options
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Posted: November 13, 2023 6:35 pm ET | Last Updated: November 13, 2023 6:40 pm ET | NASA is cutting back on the Mars Sample Return as its determines how to proceed within a more constrained budget and in response to the second Independent Review Board, IRB-2. The head of NASA's science mission...
on Nov 14, 2023
What’s Happening in Space Policy November 12-18, 2023
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Posted: November 12, 2023 3:37 pm ET | Last Updated: November 12, 2023 6:25 pm ET | Get SpacePolicyOnline.com's list of space policy events for the week of November 12-18, 2023 including the need for Congress to pass another Continuing Resolution to keep the government open after Friday,...
on Nov 13, 2023
Babin, Lucas Introduce Commercial Space Bill
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Posted: November 2, 2023 11:56 pm ET | Last Updated: November 3, 2023 12:05 am ET | Rep. Brian Babin and Rep. Frank Lucas introduced the Commercial Space Act of 2023 on November 2, 2023. Among its many provisions, the bill assigns the Department of Commerce responsibility for certifying...
on Nov 3, 2023
ESA Gets Big Increase, Commits to ISS Through 2030 and ExoMars Rover in 2028
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Posted: November 23, 2022 11:56 pm ET | Last Updated: December 5, 2022 8:51 am ET | Find out the results of the ESA Ministerial Council in November 2022 where they decided the budget and programs for the next three years. See a breakdown of the 16.9 billion Euro budget and a photo of ESA's new...
on Oct 28, 2023
Belt-Tightening Could Mean Fewer Hubble and Chandra Observations
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Posted: October 23, 2023 11:41 pm ET | Last Updated: October 24, 2023 12:06 am ET | As NASA faces reduced budgets along with other nondefense government agencies, it is looking at reducing funding for the Hubble and Chandra space telescopes.
on Oct 24, 2023