Space Industry Analysis
Mar 05, 2018
DARPA goes smallsat; Lockheed’s ship-based laser; Safran hybrid power demo; Boeing Australia autonomy initiative; Fortem’s radar-toting DroneHunter.
Mar 01, 2018
Michigan-based Orbion is aiming to fly Hall effect thruster on smallsat in 2019.
Feb 28, 2018
Megaconstellations of broadband satellites are expected to join flocks of cubesats in increasingly crowded low Earth orbit.
Feb 28, 2018
TESS expected to find targets for future exoplanet atmospheric studies by James Webb Space Telescope.
Feb 27, 2018
The service is readying for a great-power conflict by accelerating development of a next-generation fighter family and redefining battle management.
Feb 23, 2018
National Space Council tackles regulatory reform to bolster U.S. commercial space industry.
Jul 21, 2022
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is joining forces with Lockheed Martin to once again produce a rugged, non-pneumatic tire for use on the Moon.
Jul 21, 2022
UK-based horizontal space launch company Astraius has selected Northrop Grumman and Exquadrum to be suppliers for a three-stage rocket system.
Jul 20, 2022
Millennium Space Systems says it has demonstrated several new technologies–including new avionics, communications devices, onboard processing of data and radio-frequency crosslinks–with a three-satellite constellation called RED-EYE that showcases the strength of small satellites.
Jul 20, 2022
NASA has targeted three potential launch dates for Artemis I, a multiweek uncrewed first test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule on a mission around the Moon and back to Earth.
Jul 20, 2022
NASA has awarded SpaceX a contract to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory that is to join the James Webb Space Telescope and aging Hubble Space Telescope in studies of exoplanets and the deepest reaches of the universe.
Jul 19, 2022
Impulse Space and Relativity Space plan to launch a commercial research and development mission to the surface of Mars as soon as 2024.
Jul 19, 2022
NASA is close to selecting a launch period for Artemis I, the initial test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule on an uncrewed mission around the Moon and back to Earth, an agency official says.
Jul 18, 2022
The Space Development Agency has awarded two prototype contracts worth about $1.32 billion in total to teams led by L3Harris Technologies and Northrop Grumman Strategic Space Systems for 28 Tranche 1 Tracking Layer satellites.