President Trump announced today he is moving the headquarters of U.S. Space Command from Colorado to Alabama. The decision has been expected since he returned to office, restoring a decision […]| SpacePolicyOnline.com
An Executive Order issued by President Trump to exclude NASA and other agencies from collective bargaining rights does so by designating them as having intelligence or national security as a […]| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of August 31-September 6, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in […]| SpacePolicyOnline.com
SpaceX got some much needed good news today with a successful Starship flight test. After three failures in a row, tonight’s suborbital Integrated Flight Test-10 seemed to be flawless with […]| SpacePolicyOnline.com
SpaceX is still trying to get its 10th Starship Integrated Flight Test, IFT-10, off the ground. Yesterday’s attempt was canceled because of a ground-side liquid oxygen leak. Today’s was scrubbed […]| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of August 24-30, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in recess […]| SpacePolicyOnline.com
The U.S. Space Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle lifted off from Kennedy Space Center just before midnight on its eighth flight, OTV-8. Looking like a small space shuttle, the spaceplane […]| SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: August 20, 2025 11:05 pm ET | Last Updated: August 21, 2025 3:36 pm ET | NASA will announce a new class of astronauts on September 22, 2025 and then hold press briefings to begin building excitement for the Artemis II mission to the Moon planned for spring 2026.| SpacePolicyOnline.com
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: 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
Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week plus a day of August 17-24, 2025 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate […]| SpacePolicyOnline.com
President Trump issued a broad Executive Order this afternoon addressing commercial space activities overseen by the Department of Transportation and the Department of Commerce. Among the provisions, DOT must reform […]| 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 14, 2025 5:41 pm ET | Last Updated: June 15, 2025 10:35 am ET | The launch of the Axiom-4 private astronaut crew to the ISS is still on hold, but could take place on June 19. NASA is conducting additional tests to confirm that air leaks on the Russian side of the ISS are repaired.| 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: June 2, 2025 6:09 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 28, 2025 9:20 pm ET | Last Updated: May 28, 2025 9:25 pm ET | China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, on May 28, 2025 Eastern Daylight Time (May 29 Beijing time). If successful, it will be the third country to bring asteroid samples back to Earth after Japan and the United States.| 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