Space Industry Analysis
Apr 19, 2019
More then a year after its flight test, Falcon Heavy enters commercial service.
Apr 19, 2019
The gargantuan twin-fuselage launch vehicle carrier aircraft made a successful 2-hr. 29-min. first flight from Mojave Air and Spaceport.
Apr 17, 2019
Exactly how NASA could pull off a 2024 Moon landing remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: It will cost billions.
Apr 16, 2019
In-space logistics are the key to increasing robustness and economic productivity.
Apr 16, 2019
After the geostationary communications satellite market collapse, Maxar is focused on launching its Legion satellites and rapidly providing data to customers.
Apr 15, 2019
Unusual debuts at Aero; Wing delivers in Australia; Ehang flies food; UK counters UAS; DARPA challenges launch teams; Connecting UAS to ATC.
Nov 07, 2022
Shortly after its liftoff early Nov. 7 from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus International Space Station resupply capsule experienced a difficulty with the deployment of the second of its two solar arrays.
Nov 07, 2022
The Antares' cargo delivery of 8,265 lb. represents an increased launch capability of about 154 lb. (70 kg) due to modifications to the rocket’s secondary support structure.
Nov 04, 2022
An independent review board has concluded that a number of factors—including communications lapses, a lack of staffing, budget challenges and pandemic-related workplace culture changes—contributed to NASA’s delay in launching the $985 million Psyche mission to a metal-rich asteroid until October 2023.
Nov 04, 2022
Astrobotic says it has validated the Optical Precision Autonomous Landing hardware and flight software for its NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services Peregrine Mission-1 lunar landing, planned for early 2023.
Nov 04, 2022
Liftoff is targeted for 12:07 a.m. EST on Nov. 14, with backup opportunities on Nov. 16 and Nov. 19.
Nov 04, 2022
The chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission announced Nov. 3 that she would reorganize the agency to create a standalone Space Bureau to better support the needs of the growing satellite industry.
Nov 04, 2022
Virgin Galactic is set to return its first SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity to test flights in the coming months following the completion of upgrade work and says it remains on track to begin the long-delayed start of commercial spaceflights in the second quarter of 2023.
Nov 03, 2022
A low-cost positioning, navigation and timing service that would use the same L-band frequency range as the Global Positioning System could be installed on hundreds of military satellites in low Earth orbit, the Space Development Agency revealed on Nov. 3.