Space Industry Analysis
Jan 31, 2018
In January 1958, after initial failures with Vanguard and U.S.S.R. success with Sputnik, the U.S. made it into orbit.
Jan 30, 2018
Preliminary fiscal 2019 spending plan also aims to end direct funding of space station in 2025.
Jan 29, 2018
What do aerospace and defense companies need to think of now as artificial intelligence spreads across the industry in earnest?
Jan 26, 2018
Rocket Lab’s Electron small-satellite launcher blasted off from New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula on Jan. 20 for a second test flight.
Jan 24, 2018
Rating commercial crew vehicles on their chance of flight fatality turns out to be a nuanced art and science.
Jan 19, 2018
With U.S. ferry flights on Russian Soyuz ending next year, pressure is on to get U.S. space taxis flying, without sacrificing safety.
Jul 13, 2022
The upgraded Vega-C, a beefed-up and more flexible version of the Vega light launcher, made its first flight July 13 from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Jul 13, 2022
The CEO of Roscosmos State Space Corp. has vowed to ban cosmonauts from working with the European Robotic Arm installed on Russia’s new Nauka science module on the International Space Station.
Jul 13, 2022
NASA’s Moon-bound, small Capstone mission satellite has successfully executed a delayed second trajectory correction maneuver.
Jul 13, 2022
The NASA- and Northrop Grumman-developed observatory is “probably the most significant engineering feat of our time,” Northrop CEO Kathy Warden tells Aviation Week.
Jul 12, 2022
NASA and its partners promise there will be much more to come from the just-commissioned James Webb Space Telescope, following the release of its first five science images on July 12.
Jul 12, 2022
Aerospace company Thales Group, mobile phone chip maker Qualcomm Technologies and telecommunications company Ericsson plan to test and validate low Earth orbit satellite-based 5G network technologies for mobile phones.
Jul 12, 2022
President Biden unveiled the first image marking the start of the James Webb Space Telescope’s long-anticipated initial science campaign on July 11 that featured a stirring, full-color view of the now-vast universe from its earliest and not previously witnessed era.
Jul 11, 2022
The U.S. Space Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Space Systems a $22.1 million contract for the Rapid On-orbit Space Technology Evaluation Ring (Rooster), a ridesharing spacecraft that will be used to demonstrate on-orbit refueling technology and other prototypes.