Space Industry Analysis
Nov 02, 2016
New NASA facility will simulate SLS launch loads, while planners study flight tests for secondary payloads.
Nov 02, 2016
Using rockets over and over like airplanes can hold down launch costs, but it will take a lot of launches to overcome the cost and weight penalties.
Nov 02, 2016
Two years after a fatal SpaceShipTwo crash, Virgin Galactic looks to move forward, confident about upcoming glide tests with an improved rocket motor.
Oct 28, 2016
In this week’s Washington Outlook: companies create new ways to contain potential battery fires; the hunt for new space policy champions; and a recommendation for changing remote-sensing regulations.
Oct 27, 2016
In this week’s roundup, the CH-53K is poised for production; an Indian and French company create a joint venture for helicopter maintenance; Embraer pays at least $205 million to settle corruption charges and a U.S. weather satellite breaks up in space.
Oct 26, 2016
The Chinese seem to be following in the footsteps of their former Soviet allies, developing a space presence that could lead to low-Earth-orbit commercial possibilities.
Mar 22, 2022
Northrop Grumman’s Space Logistics is trying to let the U.S. Space Force know that it could extend the lives of older geosynchronous satellites or potentially add new capabilities to them.
Mar 22, 2022
One of a growing number of unintended consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a boost in business for the space industry.
Mar 21, 2022
Eighteen days after OneWeb decided to suspend launches of its broadband satellites from Russia in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the company has signed with SpaceX.
Mar 21, 2022
Engineers at the Imperial College of London have created a virtual wind tunnel called PyFR, capable of simulating the atmospheric conditions on Mars for the testing of rotorcraft blade designs.
Mar 21, 2022
Disruption of commercial and scientific cooperation with Western countries because of the conflict in Ukraine is likely to cause Russia’s space-launch campaign to be reduced by one-third this year.
Mar 19, 2022
After releasing its satellite computer vision and guidance software in January, Scout has raised an undisclosed bridge round of financing led by venture capital firm Decisive Point.
Mar 18, 2022
Russia’s Soyuz MS-21 successfully launched and docked to the International Space Station’s (ISS) Russian segment on March 18, delivering cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov.
Mar 18, 2022
The first NASA-backed private astronaut mission to the International Space Station has been retargeted for launch no earlier than April 3 due to additional time needed for transportation provider SpaceX to prepare the Crew Dragon spacecraft chartered by Axiom Space.