Space Industry Analysis
Dec 06, 2016
Virgin Galactic has begun glide flights of the second—and significantly improved—SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle after completing a fourth and final captive carriage flight under the WhiteKnightTwo mothership.
Dec 02, 2016
In this week’s Washington Outlook, outsourcing business seems suddenly unpopular, lawmakers ask for a flyoff between the F-35 and the A-10 and the head of Trump’s NASA transition team is named.
Dec 02, 2016
With more outreach to commercial industry and international partners, the U.S. is expanding the ways it approaches defense.
Dec 01, 2016
The principal investigator for the New Horizons space program says that the volume of unexpected results generated will mean rewriting the textbooks on what is happening in the Kuiper Belt.
Dec 01, 2016
Unique views along with exquisite timing helped to elevate these submissions to Aviation Week's 2016 Photo Contest
Nov 29, 2016
ESA’s vision for Europe’s participation in space is expected to be bolstered by a vote of confidence and cash from the 22 member states that comprise the space agency.
Mar 28, 2022
The Pentagon’s fiscal 2023 budget request released, March 28, is the first time the U.S. Space Force has been able to plan spending as its own independent service, and the result is a big investment in research and development aimed at making key services in orbit more protected from emerging threats.
Mar 25, 2022
Momentus is preparing its Vigoride space tug for vibration testing in advance of its targeted June launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Mar 25, 2022
NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli and the European Space Agency’s Andreas Mogensen have been selected as the first two of four astronauts planned for launch aboard the SpaceX Crew-7 Dragon no earlier than 2023 for a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station.
Mar 25, 2022
DARPA has kicked off its orbital Moon manufacturing program, naming eight research teams for the initiative.
Mar 24, 2022
Neuraspace, a Portuguese startup looking to use artificial intelligence for space debris and satellite collision avoidance services, has landed more than $2.7 million from Armilar Venture Partners to accelerate the commercialization of its platform.
Mar 24, 2022
Barry Matsumori, a SpaceX veteran and until recently the CEO of space optical communications startup BridgeComm, was named the chief operating officer of Impulse Space Propulsion, the new in-orbit transfer services company founded by Tom Mueller, a SpaceX co-founder and its longtime chief technology officer.
Mar 24, 2022
For decades, the U.S. Air Force relied on its workhorse fleet of MQ-1 Predators to track and identify targets and attribute events on the ground.
Mar 24, 2022
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission promises some real drama as it zeros in on its target later this year.