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NASA Hill Backers Claim Consensus On Bill Hastening Heavy-Lift Rocket

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Monday, July 19th, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford Key lawmakers and the White House signaled support last week for moving forward with building space technologies based on NASA's Constellation manned-spaceflight program, which President Barack Obama has sought to dismantle. The Senate Commerce Committee unanimously approved a policy-setting NASA authorization bill July 15. It would direct the space agency to begin building a heavy-lift rocket now instead of Obama's previous target date of 2015 and to continue working on a crew capsule based on the ill-fated…

Space

NRO Nominee: “We Have To Look Differently At Our Requirements”

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has said that it has launched more than 200 proliferated low Earth orbit satellites in the last two years to supplement the costly high-end systems […]

Congress

Congress Needed Pentagon’s Iran Supplemental Request ‘Yesterday,’ HASC’s Wittman Says

A senior member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) said Wednesday that Congress needed the Pentagon’s Iran supplemental funding request “yesterday,” noting the ongoing lack of details from the […]

Space

Space Force Eyes Nearly $1.5 Billion for Space Data Network Backbone in Future Reconciliation Bill

The U.S. Space Force (USSF) plans to request nearly $1.5 billion for the Space Data Network (SDN) Backbone in a future fiscal 2027 reconciliation bill. Last week, Space Force’s Space […]

Congress

Warren And Sheehy Renew Call for “Right to Repair” In NDAA

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Timothy Sheehy (R-Mont.), two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), are renewing their call for “Right to Repair” language in the National […]