A sampling of links to recent space policy, politics, and government (US and international) related space news and resource items that I found of interest:
- Lunar plans:
- Facing 2024 deadline, NASA issues a report defending the Lunar Gateway | Ars Technica
- High cost, lack of support spell trouble for 2024 Moon landing plan | Ars Technica
- Bridenstine plays down costs of 2024 moon landing – SpaceNews.com
- NASA outlines plan for 2024 lunar landing – SpaceNews.com
- The battle over Trump’s Moon effort exposes Washington’s power-hungry bureaucracy | Behind The Black
- SLS/Orion:
- Commercial Crew Program:
- NASA science:
- Space traffic:
- Planetary defense:
- Asteroid strike: NASA conducts drill for the end of the world – USAToday.com
- NASA, FEMA, International Partners Plan Asteroid Impact Exercise | NASA
- Bridenstine Embraces Planetary Defense, Endorses NEOCam – SpacePolicyOnline.com
- Scientists lobby NASA for additional planetary defense missions – SpaceNews.com
- US state space:
- US military space:
- Canadian space:
- Chinese space:
- German space:
- Indian space:
- India’s ASAT Test: An Incomplete Success – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- ‘Need to reshape India’s space policy amid increased threat perception from China, Pak’ | India Post
- ISRO plans to launch radar imaging satellite in May – outlookindia.com
- India aims to be 1st country to land rover on Moon’s south pole – Xinhua | English.news.cn
- India set to launch second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 in July, landing by September – ThePrint.in
- Chandrayaan-2 Update – ISRO
- Japanese space:
- Luxembourgian space:
- Pakistani space:
- Portuguese space:
- Russian space:
- S. Korean space:
Webcasts:
** How NASA is preparing to launch another mission to the moon – PBS News Hour with Miles O’Brien
The Trump administration wants NASA to get back to the moon by 2024, using any means necessary. But will the money and the commitment be there to support the effort? Science correspondent Miles O’Brien talks to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine about technical and political risk, international competition and his broader vision for the agency.
** SpaceX Starlink Satellites in Lower Orbit got FCC Approval: Why Other Firms were Not Happy About It? – Engineering Today:
** The Space Show – Sun, 04/28/2019 – Michael Ciancone talked about his “‘Foreword to Spaceflight’ bibliography, 2019 IAC Washington, DC, Glenn Memorial Symposium, European Service Module for the Orion Program, service module integration, & more”.
** A video from DARPA about the Launch Challenge, which “aims to demonstrate flexible and responsive launch capabilities in days, not years, for our nation’s defense”: