Space Industry Analysis
Jun 07, 2017
For all the showmanship and hyperbole about reusable 100-passenger spaceships, there is something real behind Musk’s vision.
Jun 06, 2017
For Aerojet Rocketdyne and Orbital, their business transformations have been occasionally painful and practically existential—but also necessary.
Jun 05, 2017
Truck-maker goes eVTOL; NASA’s twisting flaps; Energy kite flies; Stratolaunch rolls out.
May 31, 2017
NASA is harvesting the first scientific results from its Juno mission to explore Jupiter, gathering new information that challenges old assumptions and raises new questions.
May 31, 2017
The Trump administration’s attempt to opt out of the Restore-L project and transfer its technology to the private sector is raising questions and objections.
May 29, 2017
Phantom Express to demo reusable launch; NASA seeks funding for low-boom X-plane; Rocket Lab makes it to space, but not orbit; NASA develops design tools for eVTOLs
May 05, 2022
NASA is teaming with crowdsource solutions sponsor HeroX, computer game developer Epic Games and real-time graphics developer Buendea to sponsor the NASA MarsXR Challenge, a call for contributions to a virtual reality testbed environment meant to simulate experiences and situations that future astronauts might encounter on Mars.
May 05, 2022
Four astronauts are headed for a splashdown in waters off the Florida peninsula early May 6, following their departure from the International Space Station aboard NASA’s Crew-3 SpaceX Endurance Dragon spacecraft.
May 04, 2022
The deployment of the high-orbiting segment of Russia’s Glonass global navigation satellite system is expected to start in 2026, Chief Designer Sergey Karutin said in an interview with Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin on the Sputnik radio station on May 2.
May 04, 2022
NASA is preparing for a second attempt at a Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) for the Artemis I Space Launch System (SLS) in early June.
May 04, 2022
Satellite-based remote sensing startup Satellogic expects to grow its low Earth orbit constellation to as many as 34 Earth observation satellites by the fourth quarter, executives say.
May 04, 2022
NASA and its crowdsource partner HeroX have announced the winners of their “Honey I Shrunk the NASA Payload, the Sequel” challenge for miniaturizing payload prototypes for Moon missions to fill scientific knowledge gaps.
May 04, 2022
Astroscale has completed rendezvous operations with its ELSA-d orbital debris removal demonstration despite losing half the servicing spacecraft’s maneuvering thrusters.
May 04, 2022
Start-up launch vehicle and satellite developer Phantom Space has emerged from stealth mode with a purchase agreement for more than 200 rocket engines from Colorado-based propulsion company Ursa Major.