Space Industry Analysis
Jun 08, 2018
Scientists still stumped by cause of gas release and why it vanishes exponentially faster than models predict.
Jun 06, 2018
For Blue Origin, the first step is to cut launch costs with reusable rockets and capsules.
Jun 04, 2018
Airline aims suborbital; behavior-detecting drones; Airbus reinforces urban air; Siemens electrifies aviation; Echodyne tracks drones.
Jun 04, 2018
The growing size and complexity of government networks require planners to tap capabilities offered by commercial platforms.
May 25, 2018
Britain is looking to step up its role as an international space power not only commercially, but militarily too.
May 24, 2018
Lockheed AEHF satellite test; Indonesia wants eight more Apaches; India tests BrahMos life extension; Northrop upgrades Japan’s missile warning infrastructure.
Aug 17, 2022
The first Space Launch System rocket, topped with an Orion deep-space capsule, was rolled out to Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B on Aug. 17 in preparation for an Aug. 29 launch attempt.
Aug 16, 2022
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has selected Microchip Technology to develop a High-Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) processor with “at least 100 times the computational capacity of current spaceflight computers.”
Aug 16, 2022
The U.S. Army on Aug. 15 transferred its satellite communications mission to the U.S. Space Force, putting control of all military satcom under one command.
Aug 15, 2022
The U.S. Space Council, in coordination with a variety of regulatory agencies, plans to start meeting with private space companies to discuss reforming space regulation to accommodate new technologies.
Aug 15, 2022
NASA’s uncrewed Artemis I initial test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion crew capsule will exercise the first of three flight trajectory strategies intended to kick off the return of human explorers to the lunar surface.
Aug 15, 2022
Technicians have installed and tested the flight termination system on the Space Launch System rocket, kicking off a 25-day clock for launch attempts for the Artemis I flight test.
Aug 12, 2022
Capella Space’s third generation of synthetic aperture radar satellites, named Acadia, will feature inter-satellite laser communications systems, faster downlinks and higher resolution images.
Aug 12, 2022
The transition occurred Aug. 11 during a ceremony at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.