Space Industry Analysis
Jan 27, 2016
Back-to-back landing tests mark rapid pace of private space sector achievements.
Jan 25, 2016
Australian researchers pursue a different approach to cutting launch costs—a wing-borne, fly-back booster and a reusable, scramjet-powered second stage.
Jan 22, 2016
SpaceX, Sierra Nevada move the needle on reusable-spacecraft technology that could give the orbital economy a shot in the arm.
Jan 21, 2016
From NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 award to the Dream Chaser spaceplane, to Space-X’s recent near miss landing in Vandenberg, California, the field of reusable space systems is expanding. Join our editors as they discuss developments and competition in the burgeoning commercial and defense space launch markets.
Jan 21, 2016
After years of sole-source launch contracts for the United Launch Alliance, the U.S. Air Force may soon have many options to choose from.
Jan 20, 2016
NASA and the Energy Department designate a "planetary defense officer" to coordinate efforts to find and deal with dangerous asteroids.
Dec 06, 2021
Intuitive Machines (IM) has begun construction of a $40 million, 115,000-sq.-ft. lunar production and operations center at the Houston Spaceport to support plans to establish an annual cadence of commercial missions to the lunar surface.
Dec 06, 2021
The agreement will see South Africa use China’s Beidou Navigation Satellite System for geophysics, space science, geodetic surveys and other research.
Dec 06, 2021
Using a twin model of the flight rover, engineers are preparing for a post-landing egress test.
Dec 06, 2021
The space telescope set to launch in 2023 has been built to address two of the most important questions in cosmology today: How did the universe originate and why is it expanding at an accelerating rate?
Dec 03, 2021
The debris was forecast to pass as close as 1.86 mi. to the ISS.
Dec 03, 2021
The company acknowledged it had received a warning of noncompliance from the New York Stock Exchange.
Dec 03, 2021
The SLS is a cornerstone of NASA efforts to return to the Moon with human explorers and prepare for human expeditions to Mars.
Dec 02, 2021
The contracts mark kickoff of two-phase approach to moving from the government-owned ISS to a public-private outpost in low Earth orbit.