How Loper Bright could upend the process of crafting and enforcing space policy.

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Kazakhstan has signed a memorandum on cooperation on the China-led ILRS and will also explore commercial use of each other’s spaceports.

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Rick Tumlinson writes that the International Space Station must be preserved rather than destroyed in reentry.

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A House spending bill for fiscal year 2025 would cut funding from the administration’s request for science and education programs at NASA.

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A new RAND report highlights China’s inflated perceptions of U.S. threats and a policy approach that resists cooperation with the U.S. to prevent crisis escalation

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Overly regulating the space mining industry will needlessly delay progress and disincentivize the industry, argues this op-ed.

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Rep. Mike Turner warns of a 'Cuban missile crisis in space'

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European Space Agency member states have taken a step towards modifying long-standing policies that award contracts for agency programs based on the size of each country’s financial contribution.

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The governments of the United States and India announced June 17 they are moving ahead with cooperation on human spaceflight that would include flying an Indian astronaut to the International Space Station, although with few details on who would fly and when.

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The SASC bill requires the U.S. Air Force to transfer certain space functions of the Air National Guard to the U.S. Space Force

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The committee cut $900 million from the Space Force’s proposed $29.6 billion budget

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Armenia signed the Artemis Accords regarding safe and responsible space exploration June 12, the tenth country to do so this year.

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Nine members of Congress have asked NASA to reconsider any significant changes to operations of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory linked to proposed cuts in the space telescope’s budget.

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European-Chinese cooperation in lunar exploration could come to an end despite successful collaboration in the ongoing Chang’e-6 mission.

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The general population imagines space as something far off and unreachable, when it is omnipresent in their daily lives. This lack of awareness is dangerous for the space sector, particularly public space agencies, that increasingly need to justify their existence and funding in an era of commercial space ventures and climate change restrictions. 

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From expanding the Tiangong space station to a crewed moon landing by 2030, China aims to become the leading human spaceflight power.

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Congressional language intended to accelerate work on a future NASA space telescope has the side effect of forcing the agency to disband a team it created to guide the mission’s early development.

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Peru and Slovakia signed the Artemis Accords outlining best practices for responsible space exploration, bringing the number of countries who have signed to 42.

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The timeline and outcome of France's decision whether to join Operation Olympic Defender could mold international space relations.

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FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel proposed new rules May 29 to cover the risk of debris-generating accidental explosions in space.

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Sen. Roger Wicker argues that DoD must evolve its perception of the Space Force from an enabling service to one with ‘formidable offensive potential’

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Since no one group controls space, the open sharing of space situational awareness (SSA) data is critical to ensure safe space operations.

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European officials adopted a resolution to increase the competitiveness of Europe’s space industry, but members of that industry say the measure falls far short of what is needed.

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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson defended the cost and schedule performance of the agency’s Artemis lunar exploration effort even as officials hinted as the possibility for changes in one upcoming mission.

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