Space Industry Analysis
Jan 10, 2019
Compared with a coronagraph, a starshade has a wider field of view and can allow the telescope to see planets closer to their star.
Jan 10, 2019
A new year’s prediction: 2019 will see “big money” finally buy in on aerospace—or decide to leave it for another generation. The chances are 50-50.
Jan 02, 2019
Quantum Challenge; flying-car progress; Airbus IDs drones; generative design; Vanuatu drones.
Jan 02, 2019
As the Ariane 6 program faces an unfavorable market, Europe’s institutional players have yet to put their money where their mouths are.
Dec 28, 2018
These images capture some of the highlights in the global space industry that made 2018 a banner year, as well as providing historical perspective.
Dec 27, 2018
It was a year of progress and contrasts in space, from the edge of space to Mars to a probe grazing the Sun to a sample-return rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid.
Oct 12, 2022
Ispace of Japan plans to launch the world’s first private lunar lander mission, dubbed Mission 1, during a target window of Nov. 9-15.
Oct 12, 2022
Pioneering space tourist Dennis Tito, who 21 years ago became the first privately paying passenger to visit the International Space Station, has booked two seats aboard a planned SpaceX Starship mission around the Moon.
Oct 12, 2022
A Rocket Lab Electron booster has arrived at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia in preparation for the company’s first launch from the U.S.
Oct 12, 2022
A pair of test satellites for Amazon’s planned 3,236-member Kuiper broadband constellation will be launched as secondary payloads on the debut flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan-Centaur rocket, targeted for early 2023.
Oct 12, 2022
JAXA ordered the Epsilon-6 rocket to self-destruct on the morning of Oct. 12.
Oct 11, 2022
NASA has declared its Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission a major success in its demonstration of a “kinetic impact” strategy that could be used to change the trajectory of a large asteroid on a course to impact the Earth.
Oct 11, 2022
New standardized mechanical interfaces for grappling and connecting spacecraft are critical to enabling growth of the in-space servicing, assembly and manufacturing industries, a panel of industry players says.
Oct 11, 2022
Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl Boeing 747-400 launch aircraft has arrived in the UK, ready to play its part in the country’s first orbital launch.