Space Industry Analysis
Jun 24, 2019
A carefully planned orbital ballet will bring Northrop’s MEV-1 and Intelsat 901 together in geosynchronous orbit.
Jun 18, 2019
The effort draws on nearly two decades of hypersonic propulsion and missile development work between the two companies.
Jun 14, 2019
From landers ready to roam the Moon to companies that can downlink data in the blink of an eye, here is a look at space enterprises that are winning support.
Jun 14, 2019
Let us know who is worthy of the more than 40 awards in defense, commercial aviation, space, business aviation and lifetime achievement.
Jun 12, 2019
Safran CEO Philippe Petitcolin, while still working on Zodiac integration, is also bracing for airframers taking design work away from system manufacturers.
Jun 10, 2019
Eric Trappier speaks with Aviation Week about Franco-German cooperation for a future combat air system and ambitions for a spaceplane.
Nov 21, 2022
German space startup Polaris Spaceplanes has performed the first flight of its spaceplane demonstrator built under a contract from the German defense ministry.
Nov 21, 2022
Five days into the Artemis I flight test, the Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft soared past the Moon, successfully conducting a 2-min. 30-sec. firing of its shuttle-era maneuvering engine on Nov. 21 to set up a slingshot maneuver into deeper space.
Nov 18, 2022
SpaceX has delayed by a day the planned launch from the Kennedy Space Center of the company’s 26th NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station, to address a small leak in a thermal control system.
Nov 18, 2022
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has contracted with Lockheed Martin Space to construct a digital twin of the Earth’s weather.
Nov 18, 2022
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ministerial council plans to hear an ambitious €18.7 billion ($19.5 billion) proposal by a determined director general at its meeting Nov. 22-23.
Nov 18, 2022
Japan has outlined its planned contributions to NASA’s Gateway lunar-orbiting station.
Nov 17, 2022
Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin carried out the first of three planned spacewalks Nov. 17 to continue upgrades to the International Space Station’s Russian Nauka multipurpose laboratory module,.
Nov 17, 2022
Gravitics has raised $20 million in a seed round to build large space station modules.