Space Industry Analysis
May 24, 2017
By making launch more affordable, SpaceX hopes to open the door to wider experimentation in space.
May 18, 2017
More OEM vertical integration is coming, but so are new opportunities for suppliers, including non-traditional ones.
May 18, 2017
Don’t count on a big defense spending increase this year; report finds SLS NASA’s deadline rush cost millions, and the fight over air traffic control continues.
May 17, 2017
Finding usable water on the Moon would boost space exploration, but extracting it is likely to be a challenge.
May 17, 2017
From the big rockets for human spaceflight to the swarms of tiny cubesats revolutionizing data and bandwidth, the space economy is making a name for itself.
May 12, 2017
An analysis from space industry boosters in Washington seems aimed at the future, but really it is a warning about not repeating the past.
May 04, 2022
MDA has made the first commercial sale of its Canadarm3 robotic arm technology to Axiom Space.
May 03, 2022
A Boeing CST-100 spacecraft was due to be transported to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex-41 on May 4 in preparation for a third attempt to reach the International Space Station for an uncrewed flight test.
May 03, 2022
In NASA’s first congressional hearing on its $26 billion 2023 budget request—an 8% percent increase—Administrator Bill Nelson expressed confidence in a continuing partnership with Russia to operate the International Space Station.
May 03, 2022
After successfully launching a 34-satellite rideshare mission from New Zealand, a Rocket Lab helicopter crew snared the returning first-stage booster mid-air for the first time, then released the rocket into the ocean for retrieval by ship.
May 02, 2022
NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research program has chosen 110 U.S. small businesses to further develop their technologies via Phase II awards.
May 02, 2022
The Russian Aerospace Forces conducted the first operational launch of a light Angara 1.2 rocket from Plesetsk spaceport in the northern part of the country on April 29.
Apr 29, 2022
French satellite startup Prométhée has contracted with NanoAvionics to build a hyperspectral nanosatellite demonstrator. The ProtoMéthée-1 will be based on NanoAvionics’ 16U nanosatellite bus M16P and would be a forerunner to plans to launch a 20-satellite constellation by 2025, Prométhée said on April 29.
Apr 29, 2022
Axiom Space has signed an agreement to provide a United Arab Emirates professional astronaut with a six-month tour of duty aboard the International Space Station.