5+ hour, 4+ min ago  (757+ words) COLORADO SPRINGS " The U. S. Space Force is poised to receive the largest funding increase in its short history, a windfall that is shifting attention inside the Pentagon from strategy to whether the service can actually spend the money fast enough. Under…...

8+ hour, 55+ min ago  (462+ words) COLORADO SPRINGS " Several senators are asking appropriators to increase funding for NASA's robotic Mars exploration efforts, fearing "severe and irreversible harm" if funding is not restored. The senators argue in the letter that the funding is insufficient to support continued…...

13+ hour, 55+ min ago  (435+ words) Satellite operators seeking EU market access may face a fundamental shift in how spectrum is authorized, how services are delivered across borders, and what operational obligations apply. While framed as telecommunications reform, the DNA fundamentally changes how satellite operators access…...

8+ mon, 3+ day ago  (710+ words) Updated 7: 45 a. m. Eastern Aug. 14 with additional comments. SALT LAKE CITY " The White House has issued a widely anticipated executive order addressing several commercial space regulatory issues, from launch licensing reform to mission authorization. The order, titled "Enabling Competition in the Commercial…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (723+ words) Debra Werner is a correspondent for Space News based in San Francisco. Debra earned a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. She is a recipient of the…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (1298+ words) COLORADO SPRINGS " Washington is converging on a central premise in space policy: the U. S. must spend more, move faster and coordinate better to stay ahead of China. What remains unsettled is whether the system in place can deliver on that ambition....

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (562+ words) COLORADO SPRINGS " The chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA says he opposes proposed cuts to part of NASA's budget and will seek to fund the agency at levels similar to last year. At a space policy roundtable…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago  (490+ words) WASHINGTON " A budget proposal for the Department of Commerce raises new doubts about the future of a civil space traffic management system under development there. A high-level fiscal year 2027 budget proposal released by the department April 3 included $11 million for the…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (648+ words) When Congress passed a fiscal year 2026 "minibus" appropriations bill in January, much of the space community breathed a sigh of relief. Congress had rejected the steep cuts proposed by the Trump administration, including a nearly 25% reduction in the agency's overall…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (494+ words) WASHINGTON " NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman defended a fiscal year 2027 budget proposal that would cut the agency's budget by nearly 25%. In his first public comments about the budget proposal released April 3, Isaacman said on two television news programs April 5 that the…...