Space Industry Analysis
Nov 10, 2017
In this week's Washington Outlook: Defense policy legislation skips the creation of a corps, puts the deputy defense secretary in charge of space spending.
Nov 09, 2017
The Oklahoma Republican congressman would become the first professional politician to head the U.S. space agency.
Nov 08, 2017
Aiming to mitigate effects from delayed Exploration Mission-1, the ascent abort test of Orion’s launch escape system will proceed, program manager says.
Nov 08, 2017
Astronomers in 10 nations tracked object that passed 27,200 mi. from the Earth's surface and measured 15 m by 8 m.
Nov 07, 2017
The power of the Space Launch System can enable a mission to study the region between the Solar System and the stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Nov 01, 2017
High revisit rates in new satellite constellations open the space industry to wider, more affordable, Earth observation applications.
Jun 22, 2022
NASA’s Mars Insight science team plans to extend marsquake-data gathering by the probe’s seismometer while available power dwindles daily due to dust accumulating on the lander’s solar arrays.
Jun 21, 2022
NASA managers on June 21 were reviewing results of a modified fueling test of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, which culminated when the onboard flight system software aborted the countdown.
Jun 21, 2022
The U.S. Energy Department has awarded three conceptual-design contracts for Moon-based nuclear-fission powerplants for NASA’s Artemis missions starting in the 2030s.
Jun 21, 2022
Technical issues that curtailed three Space Launch System tanking tests at the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B in April appear to have been resolved, but a new issue stymied a fourth practice countdown underway on June 20.
Jun 20, 2022
A test of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply capsule’s ability to raise the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) while docked to it was aborted quickly June 20.
Jun 20, 2022
Globalstar’s FM-15 spare satellite successfully reached low-Earth orbit after launching aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Jun 17, 2022
SpaceX kicked off a trio of launches planned for June 17-19 by sending another bank of Starlink satellites into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 booster making its13th flight, a new company record.
Jun 17, 2022
Three months after emerging from so-called stealth mode, Impulse Space Propulsion, an in-orbit transfer services company founded by SpaceX co-founder Tom Mueller, has added $10 million to its initial fundraising. Lux Capital, a venture capital firm focused on emerging science and technology ventures that is familiar to aerospace startups, is investing in Impulse, bringing the latter’s total raised to date to $30 million.