The White House has named Chirag Parikh as executive secretary of the National Space Council. Parikh is the senior director of Azure Space at Microsoft, and was previously the director of space policy for the National Security Council from 2010-2016 during the Obama administration.  The National Space Council is under the White House, and it…

The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Friday denied protests from companies affiliated with Jeff Bezos that NASA wrongly awarded a lucrative astronaut lunar lander contract solely to Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The complaints were filed by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Leidos’ subsidiary Dynetics. “NASA did not violate procurement law or regulation when it decided to make only one award…

There is a remarkable silence in Washington D.C. political circles surrounding a question that nobody expected to be asking in late July -- Why hasn't U.S. President Joe Biden nominated a permanent leader to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)? What's the hold-up? It has been more than six months since President Biden's inauguration, and even…

Space and digital engineering solutions provider Redwire successfully demonstrated the ability to simulate hybrid space architectures in support of advanced mission planning for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the company announced Thursday. Redwire demonstrated its solution, the "Hybrid Architecture Laboratory Operational Environment (HALOE)," as part of an Air Force Research Laboratory AFWERX contract it…