Space Industry Analysis
Mar 30, 2016
The modern day space race for new U.S. engines is taking place at both ends of the rocket.
Mar 30, 2016
Engines in contention to replace Russia’s RD-180 on U.S. launches cover a lot of technology, from segmented solid propellant to the methane-burning Blue Origin BE-4.
Mar 30, 2016
The Cold War era bigger-equals-better approach to space hardware is drawing to a close, and the trend extends into the power of rocket engines.
Mar 30, 2016
In past year, the total program cost of the Orbital Control System network has grown 16% to more than $4.1 billion, largely to software development issues.
Mar 30, 2016
More important than the political struggle over how many Russian RD-180 engines to allow for national security launches is the intense commercial competition to replace it altogether.
Mar 25, 2016
Pilot warns of dangers from drones | Need for artificial gravity on long space missions noted | Proponent of U.S. opposition to expansion of Gulf carriers’ U.S. routes
Jan 04, 2022
Completion of the key trial will represent a milestone in the protracted development of the medium- to heavy-lift launcher.
Jan 03, 2022
The European Space Agency has backed the Biden administration’s commitment to extending International Space Station operations through 2030.
Jan 03, 2022
Japan’s Kyoto University and Sumitomo Forestry Co. are planning a 2023 mission to launch what they claim to be the first orbiting wooden satellite.
Jan 03, 2022
Addman Engineering, the additive manufacturing rollup under private equity investor American Industrial Partners, has acquired Castheon, a refractory metals maker that has partnered with spacecraft-providing companies, the companies announced Jan. 3.
Jan 03, 2022
After successfully unfurling the James Webb Space Telescope’s tennis court-sized sunshield, flight controllers on Jan. 3 completed tensioning three of the shield’s five diamond-shaped membranes.
Jan 03, 2022
The new Persei booster for Russia’s Angara 5A heavy rocket failed to deliver a dummy payload to its final geostationary orbit.
Dec 30, 2021
The reconfiguration of the James Webb Space Telescope continued on Dec. 30 with the removal of covers that protected the observatory’s delicate sunshield for launch, setting the stage for the deployment of a five-layer, tennis court-sized structure needed to passively cool the telescope for its science program.
Dec 25, 2021
“There’s 344 things that now have to work perfectly,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a post-launch interview.