Space Industry Analysis
Jan 13, 2023
New booster validates do-or-die remake of the Lockheed-Boeing space launch partnership.
Jan 13, 2023
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Jan 12, 2023
Initial findings by Virgin Orbit suggest anomaly occurred during second-stage engine burn.
Jan 10, 2023
Sierra Space has set its sights on development of a space ecosystem in low Earth orbit, the first element of which is the Dream Chaser spaceplane.
Jan 10, 2023
Company sees robots as critical for building off-world economy.
Jan 09, 2023
The startup is studying how tumbling debris behaves.
Oct 13, 2023
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket making a debut mission for NASA sent the Psyche spacecraft on a mission to explore a planetary body made mostly of metal.
Oct 13, 2023
NASA’s IG is calling for the agency to execute a more aggressive contract transition strategy as it works to reduce the cost of future SLS rocket production.
Oct 12, 2023
Proteus Space, a startup satellite developer, closed a $4.2 million seed round to create an automated, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered system to design ESPA-class satellites in 30 days.
Oct 11, 2023
NASA has postponed a pair of International Space Station spacewalks planned for Oct. 12 and Oct. 20 due to a coolant leak.
Oct 11, 2023
Samples from the asteroid Bennu returned to Earth less than three weeks ago by NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission already are paying scientific dividends.
Oct 11, 2023
Planet Labs has delivered its Pelican-1 Earth imaging satellite to Vandenberg Space Force Base in California ahead of a planned launch in November.
Oct 11, 2023
Azerbaijan has agreed to join the China-led International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) program.
Oct 10, 2023
A pair of privately owned Iranian cubesats are slated to launch as secondary payloads aboard a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket in December.