Space Industry Analysis
Jun 28, 2017
Casc’s Xian propulsion institute will lighten its P35 solid-propellant motor, then develop a larger derivative, presumably for a new space launcher
Jun 28, 2017
Airbus and startup OneWeb are preparing to manufacture satellites at an unprecedented pace—one per day.
Jun 28, 2017
Looking back on a career illuminated by a love of words, science and the sheer excitement of the promise and peril of space exploration.
Jun 26, 2017
Trump administration boosts military space budget by 5% compared to last year’s projections, provides seed funding for six new programs.
Jun 21, 2017
Compared to the cold radioactive vacuum of space, survival in combat is a piece of cake.
Jun 21, 2017
Thales Alenia Space is to take a “minority stake” in Airstar Aerospace, a company with know-how in balloon envelopes, in a bid to advance its Stratobus telecommunications airship project.
May 10, 2022
The U.S., the European Union and multiple other nations on May 10 formally attributed cyber attacks against Viasat’s KA-SAT network on Feb. 24 to Russia, claiming Moscow attempted to disrupt Ukrainian command and control as the invasion began.
May 10, 2022
U.S. launch startup Astra Space has teamed up with the UK’s SaxaVord Spaceport as a potential new location for satellite launches.
May 10, 2022
The highly anticipated debut of the WorldView Legion high-resolution constellation from Maxar Technologies is slipping again, this time to September, as the Colorado company works through a test configuration anomaly, executives announced late May 9.
May 10, 2022
The UK Defense Ministry will launch a pair of CubeSats on the first planned horizontal launch from a UK spaceport as early as this summer.
May 10, 2022
Xona Space Systems has finished environmental testing of its Huginn demonstrator satellite ahead of its planned May 25 launch on SpaceX’s Transporter 5 rideshare mission.
May 09, 2022
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is entering the final phase of commissioning prior to the start of science observations this summer, project scientists told reporters May 9. The telescope, which launched on Dec. 25, 2021, aboard an Arianespace Ariane V rocket, is designed to follow on and expand scientific observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope and other space observatories.
May 09, 2022
Blue Origin’s next flight of the New Shepard suborbital spacecraft will include its first repeat customer.
May 09, 2022
Momentus’ space tug demonstrator has arrived at Cape Canaveral for its inaugural launch aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-5 mission after its application for payload review won FAA approval.