by Douglas Messier
Managing Editor
NOAA might finally get a permanent — if that is the right word –administrator more than three years into President Donald Trump’s four-year term.
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation approved the nomination of Neil Jacobs to become under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere, a position that includes serving as NOAA administrator.
(more…)WASHINGTON (Senate Commerce Committee PR) – U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today released the following statement after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the selection of three from among five bidders to study and design the Artemis Human Landing System (HLS). These U.S. companies will produce a design, mission concept, and plan for the Artemis HLS, two of which NASA will eventually select for production. “The Apollo […]
by Douglas Messier
Managing Editor
Tne failures of three aging satellites the United States relies upon to forecast space weather could leave the nation partially blind to electromagnetic storms that could severely disrupt electrical grids, communications systems, aviation and Global Positioning System (GPS) dependent navigation.
“The observations that we rely on to provide alerts and warnings are critical. Should we lose some of the key spacecraft that we talk about, I won’t say we’re blind but we’re darn close. It will impact our ability to support this nation’s need for space weather services. And I don’t want to see that happen,” said William Murtagh, director of NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center.
(more…)House Committee on Science, Space, & TechnologySubcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Space Situational Awareness Tuesday, February 11, 2020 02:00 PM2318 Rayburn House Office Building Witnesses Dr. Brian Weeden, Director of Program Planning, Secure World Foundation Mr. Daniel Oltrogge, Co-Director, Space Safety Coalition, Founder and Administrator, Space Safety Coalition, AIAA Space Traffic Management Space Governance Task Force Chairman, Official International Standards Organization (ISO) representative to the United Nations Committee for the […]
Ajit Pai
by Douglas Messier
Managing Editor
The battle over 5G wireless frequency allocation is heating up.
On one side, there’s NASA, the Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) who say that spectrum in the 24GHz band the government recently auctioned off to private companies will likely result in cell signals that would interfere with accurate weather forecasting.
On the other side is Federal Communications Commission and its chairman, Ajit Pai, who ignored requests to delay the auction while more studies were done. Pai recently told the Senate Science Committee to ignore what he called faulty data presented by NASA and NOAA at the 11th hour.
House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology America in Space: Future Visions, Current Issues Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 – 10:00 am EST Location: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building Witnesses Dr. Ellen Stofan, John and Adrienne Mars Director, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Former NASA Chief Scientist Dr. Peggy A. Whitson, Technical Consultant and Former Astronaut Mr. Frank A. Rose, Senior Fellow, Security and Strategy, The Brookings Institution, Former […]
Nominations Hearing U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a hearing at 10: 15 a.m. on Thursday, August 23, 2018, to consider three presidential nominees. Completed nomination questionnaires are available at www.commerce.senate.gov/nominations Witnesses: Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier, of Oklahoma, to be the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy [Questionaire] Mr. James “Jim” Morhard, of Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics […]
The new NASA global data set combines historical measurements with data from climate simulations using the best available computer models to provide forecasts of how global temperature (shown here) and precipitation might change up to 2100 under different greenhouse gas emissions scenarios. (Credit: NASA)
NASA Nominee Kinda Sorta Doesn’t Really
Walk Back Position on Global Warming
by Douglas Messier
Managing Editor
On Friday, the U.S. government released a long-in-the-making report on climate change that contained a stark assessment of what humans are doing to planet Earth.
“This assessment concludes, based on extensive evidence, that it is extremely likely that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, are the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century,” the report states. “For the warming over the last century, there is no convincing alternative explanation supported by the extent of the observational evidence.”
Planned OneWeb production facility in Exploration Park, Fla. (Credit: OneWeb)
Testimony of Greg Wyler
Founder and Executive Chairman,
Worldu Satellites Limited (OneWeb)
Before Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Technology
Oct. 25, 2017
Selected Excerpts
This is a great time to discuss our progress as we are investing over $4 billion to build the world’s first large scale satellite constellation, and will begin launching our fleet in the coming months.
The Commercial Satellite Industry: What’s Up and What’s on the Horizon 253 Russell Senate Office Building October 25, 2017 10 a.m. U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a hearing titled, “The Commercial Satellite Industry: What’s Up and What’s on the Horizon,” at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 25, 2017. The hearing will examine commercial satellite services and next-generation satellite […]
