Space Industry Analysis
Dec 06, 2017
The quirky, inventive chief executive of SpaceX wants to fly his Tesla sports car on Falcon Heavy’s debut flight in January.
Dec 05, 2017
Orbital ATK’s eighth NASA-contracted resupply mission to the ISS initiated the ambitious departure phase of a multifaceted, month-long orbital journey.
Dec 05, 2017
The global market was creeping toward $350 billion annually in 2016, with less than 25% coming from government budgets worldwide combined.
Dec 05, 2017
Ohio University students take to the air to get hands-on experience with next-generation avionics systems in a DC-3.
Dec 04, 2017
With 16 missions completed and two more on launch-range calendars for December, SpaceX could wrap up 2017 with more launches than any country.
Dec 01, 2017
Twice faced with cancellation, the joint NASA-DLR project now has a budget surplus.
Jun 28, 2022
The U.S. Space Force should avoid duplicating the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance resources of the National Reconnaissance Office for tactical needs, the newly confirmed head of space acquisitions says.
Jun 28, 2022
Virgin Orbit is targeting September for the first of two launches this year from the UK’s new spaceport in Cornwall, a mission that will mark the first rocket launch from British soil and the first commercial launch from Western Europe.
Jun 28, 2022
Northrop Grumman’s 17th NASA-contracted Cygnus resupply mission to the International Space Station departed early June 28, ending a four-month stay that included a successful demonstration of the commercial freighter’s ability to reboost the outpost.
Jun 28, 2022
NASA’s lunar Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment small satellite successfully launched from Mahia, New Zealand, early June 28 U.S. time.
Jun 27, 2022
NASA and Northrop Grumman have reported a successful, first-ever limited orbital reboost of the International Space Station on June 25 using the gimbaled delta velocity engine on Northrop’s Cygnus resupply mission capsule.
Jun 27, 2022
The flight marks the first time NASA has launched from a commercial spaceport outside of the United States.
Jun 24, 2022
Launch aboard aa SpaceX Falcon Heavy had been targeted between Sept. 20 and Oct. 11.
Jun 24, 2022
NASA has issued five contracts with a combined maximum value of $103.4 million to four companies in support of mission-enabling spacecraft and aircraft management services overseen by the Flight Operations Directorate at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.