Space Industry Analysis
May 10, 2017
Whether it is found in our Solar System or another one, discovery of another life form will mean we are not unique in the universe, and probably not even rare.
May 05, 2017
In this week’s Washington Outlook: Republicans lobby for end to defense budget limits, SpaceX seeks regulatory changes for broadband constellation and will the airlines regulate themselves?
May 04, 2017
Orbital ATK, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are key contenders for the Air Force’s EELV launch service investments.
May 03, 2017
Sierra Nevada Corp.’s Dream Chaser uses guidance, navigation and control techniques first developed for astronaut flights in the 1960s.
Apr 28, 2017
Trump and NATO defense spending; investor calls on Musk to stop cooperating with the president; the F-35’s air show prospects; and goodbye to a government shutdown.
Apr 27, 2017
Tianzhou is most like the Japanese HTV cargo craft used to supply the ISS. Tianzhous will burn up on reentry, unlike the similar-sized SpaceX Dragon.
Apr 29, 2022
During an April 28 spacewalk, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev enabled the first motion of the European Space Agency’s 37-ft. robot arm, a multipurpose manipulator that was launched to the International Space Station in July 2021 as part of the Russian Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module.
Apr 28, 2022
Firefly Aerospace has completed the integration readiness review of its Blue Ghost M1 lunar lander.
Apr 28, 2022
Science missions using the Boeing 747SP-based Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy airborne observatory will end in September 2022 after the U.S. National Academies assessed the science output no longer justifies its operating costs.
Apr 28, 2022
NASA’s SpaceX-launched Crew-4 Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station late April 27, delivering four U.S. and European astronauts to the orbiting laboratory.
Apr 27, 2022
Roscosmos has presented an updated version of the future Sfera multi-satellite orbital constellation after the Russian government approved it in early April.
Apr 27, 2022
The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate has announced that it is developing a multi-energy electron source capable of emitting a beam of electrons at dozens of energies simultaneously.
Apr 27, 2022
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket delivered a Crew Dragon capsule into orbit on April 27, sending four astronauts on their way to the International Space Station.
Apr 26, 2022
Several venture capital firms and the related office at Lockheed Martin have teamed to invest $27 million in X-Bow Systems, an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based additive manufacturing startup targeting production of solid rocket energetics.