Space Industry Analysis
Mar 01, 2019
At last, a U.S spaceship for orbital human flight is ready for a test run to ISS.
Mar 01, 2019
Virgin Galactic targets assured repeatability as test focus expands beyond envelope expansion to include cabin environment and ride quality.
Mar 01, 2019
As NASA gears up for first U.S. human spaceflights since 2011, a training tool from the ‘60s is back in vogue.
Feb 22, 2019
China’s Insitu look-alike, HAL displays utility helo mockup; the U.S. Air Force’s space force, and Saab may sign on to UK fighter concept.
Feb 22, 2019
One of Aviation Week’s 20 Twenties in 2014 is now a mechanical test engineering manager for Northrop Grumman’s James Webb Space Telescope program.
Feb 21, 2019
Company takes on Iridium, GlobalStar with cheap narrowband communications via nanosatellites.
Oct 25, 2022
NASA is now spending more money with SpaceX than Boeing, Lockheed or any other single contractor aside from the California Institute of Technology, which operates the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Oct 25, 2022
Redwire’s upgraded Biofabication Facility is set for a Nov. 6 launch to the International Space Station, intended to advance efforts to culture human tissues and organs in microgravity for surgical transplant on Earth.
Oct 25, 2022
The altitude-raising maneuver was to avoid orbital debris associated with a former Soviet electronic and signals intelligence satellite that was the target of a November 2021 Russian anti-satellite test.
Oct 24, 2022
Roscosmos Space Corp. has launched the first satellite of Russia’s new Sfera multisatellite communication and Earth observation constellation.
Oct 24, 2022
As a third attempt to launch the Artemis I test flight of an uncrewed Orion capsule around the Moon and back to Earth nears, NASA has placed a $1.99 billion order for three more of the four-person capsules for Artemis missions VI through VIII.
Oct 24, 2022
The independent study team plans to spend nine months collecting unclassified UAP data from civilian government agencies, commercial entities and other sources and recommend a path forward for future analysis.
Oct 24, 2022
The newest flock of 36 OneWeb satellites reached orbit on Oct. 22 following a successful launch by NewSpace India Limited.
Oct 20, 2022
New imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected second trail of debris emerging from Dimorphos, the asteroid target for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission impact on Sept. 26.