Space Industry Analysis
Jul 11, 2019
Air Force scraps for missile-warning satellite funding; Fire Scout begins operations; Philippines to get Black Hawks in 2020; Germans use A400M for refueling.
Jul 11, 2019
Global space industry never stronger, but deep-space human travel still out of reach.
Jul 11, 2019
Post-Apollo ‘technical consolidation’ is still underway, but Mars looms as the next goal, says Apollo 11 pilot Michael Collins.
Jul 11, 2019
A look at the rockets that have taken people above the atmosphere and the space stations that have housed them in orbit.
Jul 10, 2019
NASA issues price list and guidelines for station services in hopes of luring new businesses.
Jul 10, 2019
Engineers inspired by Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk are devising ways to help humans survive in the future.
Dec 06, 2022
The U.S. Commerce Department has awarded seven contracts to companies providing space situational awareness services.
Dec 06, 2022
NASA’s Artemis I Orion capsule still has two of its four primary mission objectives yet to achieve.
Dec 05, 2022
Sierra Space will provide its new-generation, low-cost solar power arrays for a constellation of low Earth orbit satellite buses.
Dec 05, 2022
NASA’s Artemis I Orion crew capsule carried out its second and final major maneuver for departing the Moon on Dec. 5.
Dec 03, 2022
The iROSA they installed was one of two delivered aboard SpaceX's 26th NASA-contracted resupply mission.
Dec 01, 2022
Successful execution of DRO departure burn is the first of two major maneuvers needed to place the uncrewed capsule on course toward a Pacific Ocean splashdown.
Dec 01, 2022
The 1 min. 45-sec. DRO departure maneuver is scheduled for Dec. 1 at 4:55 p.m. EST, followed by a 3 min. 27 sec. Earth return lunar flyby maneuver on Dec. 5 at 11 a.m. EST.
Nov 30, 2022
Shifting space debris tracking to the Commerce Department will free Spacecom up to focus on the “why” of movement in space.