Space Industry Analysis
Dec 07, 2018
Our editors brought their expertise to bear on photographs that they found most compelling in their respective fields this year.
Dec 07, 2018
InSight is designed to study what exists from about 1 mi. beneath the planet’s surface to its metal core, some 1,000 mi. below.
Dec 04, 2018
Terrain relative navigation is opening a wider window for Mars exploration.
Dec 03, 2018
Software providers and OEMs have a joint responsibility to ensure that small and medium-size suppliers gain access to the simulation and modeling tools.
Nov 30, 2018
A pair of briefcase-size satellites prove a “bring your own” communications relay option for deep-space missions.
Nov 30, 2018
Why Ellen Stofan is confident humans will follow robots to Mars in less than 20 years and how she plans to bring the 42-year-old institution back to the future.
Oct 03, 2022
The rocket upstart recently shelved its troubled small launch vehicle to focus on developing a larger launcher.
Oct 03, 2022
Firefly Aerospace has recovered from the unsuccessful 2021 debut launch of its Alpha small-satellite booster with a successful follow-on flight test.
Oct 03, 2022
Vulcan’s debut launch, targeted for late this year or early 2023, will send a privately owned lander, carrying payloads for NASA and other customers, to the surface of the Moon.
Sep 30, 2022
Russia and Belarus have finalized an agreement on joint development of a new Earth monitoring satellite that can enhance the nations’ mapping capabilities.
Sep 30, 2022
A joint U.S.-Australian space surveillance telescope—relocated from New Mexico to Australia to help avoid potential collisions and monitor asteroids—reached initial operational capability (IOC) on Sept. 30.
Sep 30, 2022
The U.S. Department of Defense has released a request for proposals for “Proliferated Low Earth Orbit Satellite-Based Services.”
Sep 30, 2022
Delays have slowed the gathering of experience that ArianeGroup needs for its proposed family of reusable launchers.
Sep 29, 2022
Three Russian cosmonauts descended safely to Earth aboard their Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft early Sept. 29, continuing an International Space Station (ISS) crew exchange process that has been extended due to Hurricane Ian’s threat to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.