Space Industry Analysis
Jul 03, 2019
Fifty years later, solar system science still shaped by results from Apollo missions.
Jul 03, 2019
India plans to launch its second Moon mission this month and place humans in Earth orbit by the end of 2021.
Jul 02, 2019
The lessons from the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, shuttle and ISS wardrobes live on as NASA readies garments for Orion crews and astronauts assigned to low-Earth-orbit activities. And now NASA will have to outfit astronauts for Artemis.
Jul 02, 2019
A return to the lunar surface may require the work of multiple nations and companies with competing interests.
Jul 01, 2019
Boeing courts Cora; LeoLabs aids space regulator; H55’s electric trainer; Jet fuel from the Sun; Drone parachutes get nod; Looking into fighter pilot brains.
Jun 27, 2019
The stunning merger plan reinforces worries that both defense spending and the commercial aircraft order boom have peaked.
Nov 23, 2022
The European Space Agency’s ministerial council concluded with a €16.9 billion ($17.2 billion) budget for the coming years, a 17% increase and the highest ever thanks to a broad agreement on most of the proposed programs.
Nov 23, 2022
The Vega-C light launcher is set to perform its first mission for Arianespace, which will see Avio’s upgraded rocket place two Airbus Pleiades satellites into orbit.
Nov 22, 2022
Europe’s three leading countries in space launchers have issued a joint statement that sets the stage for further cooperation on Ariane, Vega and micro-/mini-launcher programs within the framework of the European Space Agency.
Nov 22, 2022
Startup Rosotics has raised $750,000 in “pre-seed funding” to develop a rapid induction metal 3D printer for making large aerospace parts.
Nov 22, 2022
NASA’s frontline personnel are giving their Artemis I test flight high marks so far.
Nov 22, 2022
The delay has been attributed to “the development of the ground test equipment rather than the ship itself.”
Nov 22, 2022
Startup STELLS Space Corp. plans to launch a mobile recharging station to the Moon by 2025.
Nov 21, 2022
On the eve of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ministerial council, 21 startup companies are requesting that member states approve a resolution for an open competition every time an institutional payload has to be placed into orbit.