Space Industry Analysis
Jan 30, 2019
Hoping for a massive increase in its space safety budget, ESA presses on with a joint asteroid deflection mission with NASA.
Jan 25, 2019
Allowing corporations to buy naming rights to NASA property and to use astronauts for commercials would cause more harm than good for the American public and for NASA as a public entity.
Jan 25, 2019
Scenes from the visit of the first U.S.-based journalist to cover a launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
Jan 25, 2019
Commercial funding not only enhances great American research organizations, but it also creates them—just look at the Smithsonian Institution.
Jan 24, 2019
Listen in as our editors discuss the shocking turnabout for the late Paul Allen’s air-launch space company and other recent churn in the space launch market.
Jan 24, 2019
The first rocket officially named Soyuz was launched in 1966 and has since flown 1,050 times, of which 1,023 were successful.
Oct 18, 2022
Northrop Grumman has contracted with Mynaric to provide laser communications terminals for 14 satellites as part of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program.
Oct 18, 2022
Luxembourg could become the second European operating base for Virgin Orbit’s horizontal satellite launch as part of proposals to provide responsive launch services for NATO and European allies.
Oct 18, 2022
Satellite launch startup Orbex has secured an extra £40 million ($45.2 million) in funding from investors that will enable the company to scale up its operations to be ready for its first vertical launch from the UK.
Oct 17, 2022
Sidus Space plans to test a new edge computing capability aboard its LizzieSat when that satellite launches in 2023.
Oct 17, 2022
Since its launch, TESS is credited with the discovery of more than 266 extrasolar planets and thousands of additional candidates that are currently under assessment for verification.
Oct 16, 2022
Blacksky Technology could raise up to $200 million in fresh funds by selling stock, debt or both.
Oct 14, 2022
After a two-day weather delay, NASA’s quartet of Crew-4 astronauts departed the International Space Station aboard their Freedom SpaceX Dragon capsule on Oct. 14 for a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, ending a 170-day mission to the orbital science laboratory.
Oct 14, 2022
The Pentagon is in discussions with SpaceX about the future of Starlink satellite internet connectivity in Ukraine after the company threatened to end the service if the Defense Department does not pick up the bill, while the military is also reaching out to alternative satellite communications providers.