Posted: February 25, 2025 8:05 pm ET | Last Updated: February 25, 2025 8:09 pm ET | President Trump's Iron Dome for America has been renamed Golden Dome for America to avoid any confusion with Israel's ground-based missle defense system.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: June 5, 2025 7:12 pm ET | Last Updated: June 6, 2025 2:57 pm ET | President Trump and Elon Musk's feud over the reconciliation bill has escalated into Trump threatening to end Musk's government contracts and Musk responding that he will begin right now by decomissioning the Dragon spacecraft needed to keep the International Space Station operating.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: May 22, 2025 9:01 pm ET | Last Updated: May 22, 2025 11:12 pm ET | The House passed the reconciliation bill on May 22, 2025 that includes $25 billion for Trump's Golden Dome missile defense system that includes space-based intercptors. But the head of the U.S. Space Force is warning that his service is already under-resourced and has lost 14 percent of its civilian workforce.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: September 3, 2025 8:40 pm ET | Last Updated: September 4, 2025 2:15 pm ET | A Senate Commerce Committee hearing on September 3, 2025 championed getting American astronauts back on the Moon before China puts taikonauts there, and also to begin sustained human presence on the Moon. The Trump Administration agrees on getting astronauts back to the Moon before China, but has not shared its long term plans for lunar exploration as it focuses on Mars.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: February 28, 2024 9:56 pm ET | Last Updated: February 28, 2024 9:56 pm ET | NASA said today that the air leak on the Russian side of the International Space Station has doubled. While there is no imminent threat to the crew, NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel is reiterating the urgency of building a deorbit vehicle to safely send the ISS into the Pacific Ocean at the end of its lifetime.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: August 26, 2025 10:24 pm ET | Last Updated: August 26, 2025 10:25 pm ET | SpaceX's 10th Starship flight test, IFT-10, was a success on August 26, 2025. The Super Heavy booster splashed down in the Gulf, while Starship flew three-quarters of the way around the world, splashing down in the Indian Ocean after deploying eight simulated Starship V3 satellites and conducting other tests. It was a suborbital mission.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: February 8, 2025 1:25 pm ET | Last Updated: February 8, 2025 1:36 pm ET | Senators Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) have introduced the IRONDOME Act to begin implementing President Trump's Iron Dome for America concept, which includes development of space-based interceptors. The idea traces its roots to Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: August 3, 2025 3:05 pm ET | Last Updated: August 3, 2025 3:05 pm ET | Get SpacePolicyOnline.com's list of space policy events for the week of August 3-9, 2025 including the 2025 Space & Mission Defense (SMD) Symposium in Huntsville, the possible return of Crew-10 from the International Space Station, and more.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: March 10, 2025 2:18 pm ET | Last Updated: March 10, 2025 3:38 pm ET | Reductions-in-Force or RIFs began at NASA headquarters on March 10, 2025. Three offices were closed -- the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strateg (OTPS) that includes the Chief Technology and Chief Economist, the Office of the Chief Scientist, and a branch of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: April 11, 2025 5:50 pm ET | Last Updated: April 13, 2025 9:39 pm ET | NASA's science budget will suffer deep cuts, about 50 percent, in Trump's FY2026 budget request according to a report in Ars Technica. Members of the House and Senate are vowing to fight such cuts.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: April 23, 2025 7:34 pm ET | Last Updated: April 23, 2025 7:38 pm ET | The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee will meet in Executive Session on April 30, 2025 in 253 Russell Senate Office Building at 10:00 am. Among the list of measures … Read More Read More| spacepolicyonline.com
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Posted: July 22, 2025 11:25 pm ET | Last Updated: July 22, 2025 11:38 pm ET | Gen. Michael Guetlein has begun his new job as head of the Golden Dome missile defense shield project. He has been given 60 days to come up with an objective architecture to build a system by 2028.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: July 17, 2025 8:39 pm ET | Last Updated: July 21, 2025 5:57 pm ET | The Senate Appropriations Committee has rejected the Trump Administration's budget proposal to terminate NOAA's Traffic Coordination System for Space, TraCSS, arguing that it is an inherently governmental responsibility.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: July 8, 2025 5:54 pm ET | Last Updated: July 8, 2025 5:54 pm ET | Seven aerospace industry associations are urging Congress not to eliminate the Traffic Coordination System for Space, TraCSS, in NOAA's Office of Space Commerce as proposed by the Trump Administration's FY2026 budget request. TraCSS is designed to alert civil and commercial satellite operators to potential collisions in space.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: July 3, 2025 11:54 pm ET | Last Updated: July 4, 2025 11:48 am ET | The House approved the reconciliation bill today, sending it to the President's desk with no changes to the version passed by the Senate earlier this week. The bill includes billions for the U.S. Space Force in addition to what it gets through the regular FY2026 appropriations process.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: June 26, 2025 11:04 pm ET | Last Updated: June 27, 2025 12:50 pm ET | DOD released more details about the FY2026 budget today. Although the request for the U.S. Space Force is $26.3 billion, the Trump Administration considers it to be $40.1 billion because they include money that is part of the reconciliation bill even though it is a separate process from appropriations.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: June 10, 2025 11:06 pm ET | Last Updated: June 12, 2025 9:01 pm ET | The House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee took the first step in funding DOD for FY2026 on June 10, 2025, approving a bill that keeps total DOD spending at the same level as FY2025. The Space Force would also be funded at the same level as FY2025 even though the Trump Administration proposed cutting it by almost $3 billion.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: June 5, 2025 10:37 pm ET | Last Updated: June 5, 2025 10:47 pm ET | The Senate Commerce Committee's portion of the reconciliation bill would fund portions of NASA's Moon-to-Mars program that President Trump wants to kill, especially the Gateway lunar space station, the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: June 1, 2025 5:04 pm ET | Last Updated: July 8, 2025 2:35 pm ET | President Trump sent his full budget request to Congress on May 30 detailing the $6 billion cut he is proposing for NASA. The scope of the cuts to everything except human spaceflight is difficult to grasp. Meanwhile., Trump also withdrew the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be NASA Administration, keeping the agency in limbo.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: May 20, 2025 6:22 pm ET | Last Updated: May 21, 2025 10:23 am ET | President Trump announced that U.S. Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein will lead the Golden Dome missile defense project.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: May 2, 2025 11:22 am ET | Last Updated: May 3, 2025 3:51 pm ET | President Trump is proposing a $6 billion cut to NASA for FY2026. Human spaceflight gets a boost, but everything else is cut.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: April 24, 2025 11:54 pm ET | Last Updated: April 25, 2025 12:37 am ET | President Trump issued a statement of support for space science and exploration on April 24, 2025, the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope.| SpacePolicyOnline.com