Space Industry Analysis
Mar 15, 2018
Swarm Technologies’ four prototypes flew aboard an Indian rocket in January. The FAA says they are too small to be detected by the Space Surveillance Network.
Mar 14, 2018
Among the first test-cases for the revamped office are a pair of cubesats that will accompany the upcoming InSight mission to Mars.
Mar 12, 2018
Arianespace’s CEO discusses the recent Ariane 5 mishap, Ariane 6 development and chances of reusability becoming a viable alternative.
Mar 12, 2018
China plans 36 flights by Casc’s various Long March space launchers this year. Long March 11 looks mature, but others have slipped.
Mar 12, 2018
Preparing for authorization for manned Moon missions, the Chinese space industry is working on three engines and has built a test airframe structure.
Mar 09, 2018
Previously announced winners, Philip J. Klass Lifetime Achievement Award recipients and Tomorrow's Leaders also were honored.
Jul 26, 2022
A Japanese research agency has completed a successful combustion test of a hypersonic scramjet engine launched by a sounding rocket.
Jul 26, 2022
In its nearly 22 years of continuous staffing, the International Space Station has hosted more than 2,500 science investigations and technology-development activities, a legacy benefiting both life on Earth and the human exploration of deep space, according to a new report from NASA
Jul 25, 2022
A deal would create a multi-orbit satellite heavyweight.
Jul 25, 2022
China has sent the Wentian lab module to space, lifting off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on the Long March-5B Y3 carrier rocket
Jul 22, 2022
Relativity Space is “weeks away” from launching its first rocket, the Terran 1.
Jul 22, 2022
The launch of Russia’s robotic Luna-25 lander to the Moon is likely to slip to 2023.
Jul 22, 2022
NASA has awarded a $73 million contract to Draper, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, under the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program for a robotic mission to Schrodinger Basin on the Moon’s far side to conduct a series of geophysical and environmental science investigations.
Jul 21, 2022
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti teamed up for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on July 21 to advance activation of the 37-ft.-long, multi-jointed European Robotic Arm. The arm was launched as part of the Russian Nauka multipurpose laboratory module in July 2021.