Space Industry Analysis
Jan 06, 2017
With great maps from many sources, the head of the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency looks for new paths in an increasingly competitive environment.
Jan 04, 2017
Movement toward more frequent privatized human spaceflight is just one of the big achievements slated for 2017, whatever happens in the White House.
Dec 23, 2016
Small satellites loom large in the coming year, as smallsat technology advances broaden their possible applications at much lower cost.
Dec 23, 2016
Whether the Trump election in the U.S. or the Brexit vote in the UK, 2016 delivered shocks to the global aerospace and defense industry that will reverberate through 2017.
Dec 23, 2016
SpaceX and ULA will go toe-to-toe for space launches in 2017, in both the commercial and defense realms.
Dec 23, 2016
Aerospace and defense was shaken up in 2016, with the UK opting out of the EU and a new U.S. president elected—and then critiquing via Twitter. Despite that, the coming year promises to be an active one in the industry.
Apr 04, 2022
HawkEye 360 and Kleos Space, operators of space-based radio frequency monitoring services, launched on April 1 two new batches of satellites into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that took off from Cape Canaveral.
Apr 04, 2022
The April 3 WDR was scrubbed in response to a loss of capability to sufficiently pressurize the Mobile Launch Platform (MLP), upon which the 322-ft. tall, 5.75 million-lb. rocket rests.
Apr 02, 2022
Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin has again threatened that Russia could withdraw from the International Space Station if Western countries don’t lift…
Apr 01, 2022
Just ahead of a high-profile, privately funded crewed mission for Axiom Space, SpaceX on April 1 launched its fourth rideshare mission, delivering 40 spacecraft into orbit, including a 1-ton hyperspectral imaging satellite for Germany’s space agency, DLR.
Apr 01, 2022
Daily space-based imagery and services provider Planet Labs expects full-year revenue this fiscal year to be $170-190 million, practically 30% above last fiscal year, which was 16% above the year before.
Apr 01, 2022
AST SpaceMobile, a newly public startup aiming to provide space-based cellular broadband connectivity, remains on track to launch its experimental BlueWalker 3 satellite this summer, managers said late March 31.
Apr 01, 2022
Redwire, a newly public in-space manufacturing and services startup, expects to be part of at least eight planned launches this year after notching a dozen in 2021 and growing its backlog of work to almost $272 million.
Apr 01, 2022
Hadrian Automation has raised $90 million in Series A and A-Prime rounds to build a second highly automated machine shop.