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Just hours after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn in as President and Vice President of the United States, NASA announced the arrival of three Biden appointees along with confirmation that [...]

NASA said today that the early termination of the Space Launch System (SLS) hot fire test on Saturday was due to the conservative parameters imposed to prevent damage, not because of an [...]

With only days left before the Trump Administration ends, the White House issued yet two more space policy-related documents. These are not from the National Space Council, though. One is a [...]

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit scored a success today on its second try to reach orbit.  The LauncherOne air-launched rocket delivered 10 NASA-sponsored cubesats on this second demonstration [...]

Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of January 17-23, 2021 and any insight we can offer about them.  The Senate will be in session for part of the week. [...]

The much-anticipated hot fire test of the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage ended today after about just one minute instead of the scheduled eight minutes.  NASA is assessing the [...]

In these closing days of the Trump Administration, the White House National Space Council is still hard at work.  Today it released a seventh Space Policy Directive, this one on positioning, [...]

The Air Force announced today that Huntsville, AL is the preferred location for the headquarters of U.S. Space Command. The carefully worded statement indicated, however, that a final choice will [...]

Japan has formally agreed to participate in the lunar-orbiting Gateway space station that is part of NASA’s Artemis program to return astronauts to the Moon.  A declaration of intent signed [...]

NASA is still aiming for the first launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) this year if Saturday’s “hot fire” test goes as planned.  The first SLS core stage, fitted with its four RS-25 [...]