Space Industry Analysis
Jul 13, 2018
Reusable spaceplane under development by Boeing aims to launch 3,000 lb. to low Earth orbit for $5 million.
Jul 13, 2018
A liftoff thrust approaching 6,000 metric tons and mass exceeding 4,000 metric tons would evidently apply to the largest version, which would have four boosters.
Jul 12, 2018
Former NASA Administrator Dan Goldin says the U.S. needs to reorder its space funding priorities.
Jul 12, 2018
The hot subject at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Propulsion & Energy conference was electrification—of aircraft, spacecraft and even the surface of the Moon.
Jul 11, 2018
As ministers quarrel, aerospace industry is calling for clarity on Brexit deal.
Jul 09, 2018
Japan’s electric-aircraft consortium; AeroVironment on NASA’s Mars Helicopter; Japan’s private rocket fails; Hypersonic booster contract for Lockheed.
Aug 29, 2022
The launch weather outlook was 80% favorable as NASA began the nearly 4 hr. process of loading the SLS core stage with 196,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and 537,000 gal. of liquid hydrogen.
Aug 28, 2022
The program is intended to provide global dividends across the science, economic and global leadership spectrums, NASA says.
Aug 28, 2022
NASA on Aug. 28 was on schedule to begin fueling the SLS rocket for its inaugural flight test, targeted for liftoff at 8:33 a.m. EDT Aug. 29.
Aug 27, 2022
CAPE CANAVERAL -- The two-day countdown to launch of NASA’s first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket began as scheduled on Aug. 27, with no technical…
Aug 26, 2022
After more than 30 countdown simulations, two core-stage Green Run static engine firings and four launchpad wet dress rehearsals, countdown clocks at Kennedy Space Center were scheduled to start ticking down on Aug. 27 for the long-awaited launch of the first Space Launch System rocket.
Aug 26, 2022
Russia has completed an upgrade of the world’s most powerful liquid rocket engine, the RD-171.
Aug 26, 2022
T-Mobile has announced an agreement to use SpaceX’s Starlink constellation of low-Earth-orbit communications satellites for text message coverage across the continental U.S., Hawaii, parts of Alaska, Puerto Rico and U.S. territorial waters—remote regions outside the signal of T-Mobile’s terrestrial network.
Aug 26, 2022
HawkEye 360 and the U.S. Army have signed a new, two-year agreement to develop and demonstrate new overhead radio frequency sensing capabilities that could be used to cue military surveillance assets.