Space Industry Analysis
Dec 21, 2018
But the final frontier remains the playground of only the most adventurous investors—and for good reasons.
Dec 21, 2018
Hailed as the first crewed flight to launch from U.S. soil since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011, Virgin Galactic’s Unity flight sets the scene for the long-anticipated beginning of commercial space flights in 2019.
Dec 19, 2018
Manufacturers and operators are working to build the business case for maintaining and upgrading satellites in orbits to extend their usefulness.
Dec 19, 2018
Orders for large geostationary communication satellites fall, but small birds flock to LEO and beyond.
Dec 19, 2018
Earthrise image, Bible reading transcended objectives of first human flight into deep space.
Dec 19, 2018
Three years after a stunning, wondrous peek at Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons is poised for next encounter.
Oct 10, 2022
At the request of its customer, United Launch Alliance is delaying the debut flight of its Vulcan-Centaur booster to the first quarter of 2023, though CEO Tory Bruno acknowledges that even if Astrobotic’s lunar lander was ready, it would be difficult to make the previously targeted December launch date due to delays with Vulcan’s BE-4 core stage engines.
Oct 10, 2022
Mission controllers have regained attitude control of the NASA-funded Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment small satellite.
Oct 07, 2022
DARPA wants to expand the sustained use of the very low earth orbit (VLEO) region for future spacecraft.
Oct 06, 2022
Teams from ArianeGroup, the European Space Agency and Germany’s space agency, DLR, are testing the Ariane 6 rocket’s upper stage and Vinci engine.
Oct 06, 2022
NASA’s SpaceX-contracted Endurance Crew-5 Dragon capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station on Oct. 6, delivering four astronauts and cosmonauts as part of a crew exchange.
Oct 06, 2022
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency has awarded a prototype contract worth up to $200 million to York Space Systems for 12 communications satellites as part of its Tranche 1 Demonstration and Experimentation System program.
Oct 06, 2022
Aerojet Rocketdyne and the Air Force Research Laboratory recently conducted a successful test of a new large solid rocket motor called eSR-19 that the company is pitching for multiple stages on both defense and space applications.
Oct 05, 2022
NASA’s SpaceX-contracted Crew-5 mission was on course to deliver four U.S., Japanese and Russian crewmembers to the International Space Station on Oct. 6 following a successful Falcon 9 launch on Oct. 5 from Kennedy Space Center with a crew Dragon capsule.