Jeff Foust is a journalist at SpaceNews. He covers space policy, commercial space, and related topics, drawing on his extensive background in planetary sciences. His work has been featured in COPERNICAL, Space Today, The Space Review, and SpaceNews.
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WASHINGTON — German launch vehicle startup Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has received a license from British regulators to carry out its first orbital launch from a spaceport in the Shetland Islands later this year.
WASHINGTON — SpaceX's seventh Starship/Super Heavy test flight ended prematurely Jan. 16 when the Starship upper stage was apparently lost while ascending into space.
By: Jeff Foust
President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Dept. of Transportation says he will review fines levied by the FAA against SpaceX for launch license violations.
WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration says it is investigating reports that debris from the failed Starship test flight landed, and caused property damage in, the Turks and Caicos Islands.
WASHINGTON — One of the final space-related acts of the outgoing Biden administration is an executive order that directs cybersecurity reviews of ground systems and contract requirements for civil space systems.
By: Jeff Foust
The second Trump administration started with soaring rhetoric about sending humans to Mars but confusion about who was leading NASA on an acting basis.
WASHINGTON — Finland signed the Artemis Accords Jan. 21, the first country to do so this year amid questions about the future of the agreement in the new Trump administration.
By: Jeff Foust
WASHINGTON — The United States and Norway have signed an agreement to allow the export of American space hardware to Norway for launches there.
Traditionally, selecting the leader of NASA has not been a top priority for incoming presidential administrations. While nominations for cabinet-level posts are announced well before Inauguration Day, the choice of a NASA administrator can languish for months. President Joe Biden's nomination of Bill Nelson to lead the space agency took until March 2021 and was rather speedy, relatively speaking: in 2017, Donald Trump waited more than seven months before picking Jim Bridenstine as NASA administrator.
WASHINGTON — NASA is beginning to implement a White House executive order to terminate certain diversity programs at the agency that were once praised by its current acting administrator.
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