Juno Mission to Remain in Current Orbit at Jupiter “The orbital period does not affect the quality of the science collected by Juno on each flyby, since the altitude over […]
2017
Posted inTransition
Possible NASA Administrator Bridenstine Wants To Fight North Korea
Exclusive – Rep. Bridenstine: Shoot the Next One Down, Mr. President, Rep. Jim Bridenstine, Breitbart “President Trump should order the Secretary of Defense to position American assets and shoot down […]
Posted inTrumpSpace
Is Trump Going To A Rocket Launch?
Reader note from Kevin “I noticed a Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) over Melbourne that looks identical to the TFR’s over Palm Beach International the last two weekends for Trump’s stays […]
Posted inData
Saving Government Climate Data: NASAWatch on PBS NewsHour
Keith Cowing, editor of NASAWatch appeared tonight in a PBS NewsHour segment titled How scientists are scrambling to safeguard vital environmental data (video link)
Posted inCongress
Today's NASA Hearing Dwells On The Past – Not The Future
Full House Science Committee Hearing – NASA: Past, Present, and Future Scheduled witnsses: – [opening statement] Hon. Harrison Schmitt Apollo 17 Astronaut; Former United States Senator – [opening statement] Lt. […]
Posted inPersonnel News
Reinventing Government Yet Again
White House prepping government reorg executive order, Federal News Radio “The White House is preparing a new executive order to require agencies to plan and suggest ways to reorganize the […]
Posted inSLS and Orion
Lightfoot Tries a SLS Hail Mary Pass
Acting NASA Administrator Lightfoot Memo: Agency Update – Feb. 15, 2017 “Related to that, I have asked Bill Gerstenmaier to initiate a study to assess the feasibility of adding a […]
Posted inNews
More Choir Practice Amongst The Usual Suspects
Yea @XploreDeepSpace Gerst says this and then goes back to choir practice in an echo chamber w/the usual suspects and ignores rest of U.S. https://t.co/xISnqCfTcs — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) February […]
Posted inProcurement
Satellite Servicing Heats up with Orbital ATK Suing DARPA
Orbital ATK Sues DARPA Over MDA’s SSL GEO Satellite Servicing Contract, SpaceQ “The days of on-orbit servicing, or satellite servicing, living in obscurity are over. On February 7, Orbital ATK, […]
Posted inEarth Science
Protecting NASA's Earth Science Data From Deletion
Diehard Coders Just Rescued NASA’s Earth Science Data, Wired “Like similar groups across the country – in more than 20 cities – they believe that the Trump administration might want […]