Space Industry Analysis
Nov 05, 2018
Baseline standards for avionics, communications, life-support, power, robotics, rendezvous operations and thermal systems expected this year.
Nov 05, 2018
The FAA is readying new rules and technologies to accommodate increasing launch and reentry operations by commercial space operators.
Nov 05, 2018
Wright advances electric plans; Ignite will test electric drives; RemoveDebris images orbital junk; SESAR launches UAS demos; Vanuatu eyes vaccine delivery by drone.
Oct 31, 2018
Prime launcher will use biopropane fuel, enabling lighter architecture and speedier turnarounds for reuse.
Oct 30, 2018
Under pressure from SpaceX, some members of the European Space Agency are already considering a successor to the in-development Ariane 6 launcher.
Oct 26, 2018
Comprehensive captive-carry flight-test campaign awaits 747 and LauncherOne combination following successful fit check with rocket and wing pylon.
Sep 23, 2022
Satisfied with the outcome of a cryogenic-propellant demonstration on Sept. 21, NASA has confirmed plans to proceed at least temporarily toward a third attempt to launch the Artemis I test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule.
Sep 22, 2022
NASA reports all systems with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission spacecraft are “go” for its planned Sept. 26 collision with a small asteroid named Dimorphos.
Sep 22, 2022
An SES-led consortium of 20 European companies plans to develop and launch the Eagle-1, a communications satellite that uses quantum key distribution for end-to-end encryption.
Sep 22, 2022
Dynetics says it has matured its technology and plans to compete in a follow-on program for additional crewed lunar landing services.
Sep 22, 2022
Axiom Space plans to train and fly two Saudi astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station as early as next year.
Sep 22, 2022
Russia has reassessed how long it plans to remain a partner on the International Space Station program and now is eyeing a 2028 departure.
Sep 22, 2022
NASA on Sept. 21 released a picture of distant Neptune, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, that reveals a system of rings not seen since NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by in 1989.
Sep 22, 2022
Just as they did on Sept. 3, NASA’s Artemis I Launch Control Team members encountered hydrogen leaks while initiating a Space Launch System (SLS) propellant loading demonstration test on Sept. 21.