Space Industry Analysis
Jun 06, 2019
FAA moves a step closer to automating the monitoring of space-launch-and-reentry vehicles in real time as they transition the national airspace system.
Jun 04, 2019
The TQ-12 engine is ultimately intended to become reusable, which was one reason for the choice of clean-burning methane fuel.
Jun 03, 2019
Embraer goes electric; NASA seeks electrified propulsion; LEO serving satellite; shape-memory nacelle cooling; quantum interest.
May 31, 2019
Company to beef up its 1300 satellite bus for lunar Artemis venture's power and propulsion module.
May 28, 2019
Leanne Caret discusses how synergy of Boeing's commercial, services and defense divisions have helped the company save on estimated life-cycle costs.
May 27, 2019
Scandinavian Airlines thinks electri;, Volcopter’s Singapore landing pad; UK CAA’s sandbox for innovation; DHL’s drone deliveries, and Europe’s tiny asteroid prospector.
Nov 17, 2022
The Space Launch System (SLS) met all performance expectations during its debut flight, which sent an uncrewed Orion capsule on its way to a distant lunar orbit.
Nov 17, 2022
The new 16U satellite bus is tailored for Earth observation and space domain awareness missions.
Nov 16, 2022
Russia plans to more than double its government-owned constellation of Earth-observation satellites in 2023-25.
Nov 16, 2022
SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System is to support the second and first NASA Artemis-era missions to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon under a $1.15 billion contract modification.
Nov 16, 2022
The approvals help pave the way for the first planned orbital launch from the UK mainland for Virgin Orbit’s “Start Me Up” mission using its air-launched LauncherOne space vehicle that will be carried by its modified Boeing 747.
Nov 16, 2022
The most powerful rocket NASA has ever built lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 16, ending years of delays in the debut of the Artemis Moon program.
Nov 15, 2022
NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio resumed the agency’s efforts to upgrade the International Space Station’s solar power-generation system, with a 7-hr. spacewalk.
Nov 15, 2022
NASA managers clear the Artemis I launch team at the Kennedy Space Center to begin fueling the Space Launch System rocket for a long-delayed debut flight to put an uncrewed Orion spacecraft into a distant lunar orbit.