Space Industry Analysis
May 04, 2016
Five months before Apollo 11 astronauts set foot on the Moon, NASA was already pursuing some grandiose plans for the post-Apollo era.
May 04, 2016
The Japanese space agency is investigating what caused the Astro-H X-ray telescope to break into pieces in March.
May 04, 2016
Aviation Week’s foray into the new arena of digital imaging led to two scoops of high-level intrigue and bargaining with the U.S. military.
May 04, 2016
Future space exploration will raise issues that we can only begin to consider today. Are the societal benefits derived from human exploration, expansion of knowledge and scientific progress worth the risk to human life of what amounts to a one-way trip to Mars?
May 04, 2016
Richard Branson has been a pioneer on many fronts, but he is especially intense when it comes to space exploration and the promise it holds for a better Earth.
May 04, 2016
The private sector could move quickly to help governments manage space surveillance and advise companies and spaceports on operating responsibly in orbit.
Jan 19, 2022
The U.S. Space Force this spring will finish an analysis of technologies that can serve a space-based Ground Moving Target Indicator mission, moving the role away from aircraft and into orbit.
Jan 19, 2022
Two Russian cosmonauts on Jan. 19 completed the first in a series of up to nine spacewalks planned over 2022 to fully integrate Russia’s new multiport Prichal docking and Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory modules to the International Space Station.
Jan 19, 2022
Radian Aerospace has unveiled plans for “the world’s first fully reusable horizontal takeoff and landing, single-stage to orbit spaceplane” for sending passengers and cargo to low Earth orbit.
Jan 19, 2022
ESA and Roscosmos were previously forced to postpone the launch of the Mars exploration mission from 2020 to 2022.
Jan 19, 2022
Satellite-powered hyperspectral imagery and analytics startup HySpecIQ is aiming to raise more funds and grow its small staff ahead of an expected September 2023 launch of its first of 12 orbital assets.
Jan 18, 2022
Northrop Grumman has finalized a contract with Paragon Space Development worth more than $100 million to provide the life support system for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost program, aimed for lunar orbit as the first crew module of NASA’s Lunar Gateway.
Jan 18, 2022
Roscosmos plans to retire its heavy-lift workhorse Proton launch vehicle this year.
Jan 18, 2022
The Air Force Research Laboratory on Jan. 14 awarded SpaceX a $102 million contract for its Rocket Cargo program, an effort studying the feasibility of moving military materiel through space.