Some of the nation’s leading experts in science, technology and innovation warned the House Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday that the United States is continuing to lose its global pre-eminence in science and engineering, a trend that will have grave economic consequences. Wednesday’s testimony was based on the findings of Above the Rising [...]

To subscribe to CSExtra via RSS feed click here. If you would prefer to receive CSExtra in e-mail format, e-mail us at Info@spacecoalition.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Wednesday’s CSExtra features the latest Washington commentary and reporting on the nation’s future in space, as the House prepares to take up the Senate’s version [...]

PRAGUE, Czech Republic – Political, institutional or industrial uncertainties are a real handicap for space agencies as well as for industry. That’s a take home message from a plenary meeting dedicated to the impact of governments’ space policy changes on industry – staged here at the 61st International Astronautical Congress (IAC). Nearly 3,000 experts from [...]

Just down from space to Earth ground control: Images of some of the largest clouds that cameras on the Cassini spacecraft have yet seen on Titan! According to Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging Team Leader and Director of the Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations (CICLOPS) at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado: “The fact [...]