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Biweekly Washington D.C. Updates for the Week Ending on February 23, 2024

This Week in Washington Intuitive Machines’ IM-1 lunar lander has become the first American spacecraft to successfully land on the moon in over 50 years. Uruguay has become the 36th signatory to the Artemis Accords. The House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics held a hearing on current and future LEO activities.…

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Biweekly Washington D.C. Updates for the Week Ending on January 26, 2024

This Week in Washington Belgium joined the Artemis Accords as the 34th signatory. The House Science Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics held a hearing on the Artemis program. Read Space Foundation’s summary of the hearing here. NASA held its annual Day of Remembrance to commemorate the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia. United…

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Biweekly Washington, D.C. Updates for the Week Ending May 5, 2023

This Week in Washington This Week in Washington, President Yoon Suk Yoel reaffirmed South Korea’s intentions to strengthen bilateral cooperation in commercial, civil, and national security space with the United States, the Czech Republic became the 24th country to sign the Artemis Accords, and a coalition of 51 National Guard leaders signed onto a letter…

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Biweekly Washington, D.C. Update for the Week Ending March 24, 2023

This Week in Washington This Week in Washington, the National Space Council continues its deliberations on agency regulatory and supervisory authority for on-orbit activities, the Federal Communications Commission proposed a regulatory framework to enhance broadband services to remote and underserved areas, and private space firms exposed to the Silicon Valley Bank collapse regained access to…

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Biweekly Washington, D.C. Updates for the Week Ending January 27, 2023

This Week in Washington This Week in Washington, Congressional committee leadership decisions were released, House SST Committee leadership introduced the bipartisan Commercial Remote Sensing Amendment Act, the Hawaiian government stood up an agency to determine the fate of two observatories, and Rocket Lab successfully launched its first mission from U.S. soil. United States Space Policy…

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Biweekly Washington, D.C. Updates for the Week Ending January 13, 2023

This Week in Washington This Week in Washington, the 118th Congress was sworn in and the first session began. The House Republican Steering Committee met to fill committee rosters, naming Representatives Lucas, Rogers, and Granger as Chair of key space committees. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to establish a Space Bureau and Office of International…

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Biweekly Washington, D.C. Updates for the Week Ending December 16, 2022

This Month in Washington This Month in Washington, the NDAA passed through the House, an omnibus deal for FY23 looks to be close for Congress, Space Force celebrated its third birthday, and the Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, marking the end of a successful Artemis I mission for NASA. Space Matters Space…

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Biweekly Washington, D.C. Updates for the Week Ending November 10, 2022

This Week in Washington This Week in Washington, midterm election results returned slowly, with leadership of the 118th Congress still in the air, NASA’s Artemis 1 launch slipped from November 14th to November 16th, the UN First Committee endorsed the US resolution to ban direct-ascent ASAT weapons testing, and China launched its final space station module.…

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Biweekly Washington, D.C. Updates for the Week Ending October 28, 2022

This Week in Washington This Week in Washington, election cycle is in full swing, Congress remains out of session, NASA announced a study on unidentified aerial phenomena, and Lockheed Martin won three additional contracts to provide Orion crew capsules for Artemis Missions VI-VIII. The 38th Space Symposium REGISTRATION NOW LIVE Space Symposium is the premier…

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Biweekly Washington, D.C. Updates for the Week Ending September 30, 2022

This Week in Washington The Senate confirmed Lt Gen Chance Saltzman as the next Chief of Space Operations. Majority Leader Schumer indicated the National Defense Authorization Act will not be voted on prior to midterm elections, and a short-term Continuing Resolution (CR) has passed the Senate, likely to pass the House and to be signed…

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