Space Industry Analysis
Jan 01, 2016
A320neo and C Series enter service; F-35A goes operational, JAS 39E flies; emissions measures and tracking mandates for aviation; contract protests and consolidation pressures; unmanned aircraft and suborbital spaceplanes—things will come in pairs in 2016.
Dec 25, 2015
Countering UAS, beating brownout, robotic copilots, communication by laser, and building-block satellites are among advances that could make the news in 2016 and beyond.
Dec 25, 2015
SpaceX is celebrating the first successful touchdown on land of an orbital-class booster, the first step toward a potential paradigm shift in easing human access to space.
Dec 23, 2015
Smaller, more capable satellites enter satcom market as U.S. military demand for new spacecraft stalls.
Dec 23, 2015
In the next 10 years, as major spacefaring nations renew their fleets, the space-launch sector will be molded by the growing popularity of small satellites, increasing commercialization of space transportation, reusable launch vehicles and manned space programs.
Dec 23, 2015
Space agencies around the world will spend 2016 doing the spade work for deep-space missions later on.
Nov 30, 2021
Efforts to determine the root cause of the problem have been underway since Nov. 22.
Nov 29, 2021
NASA-led anomaly investigation found cause of vibration throughout James Webb Space Telescope.
Nov 26, 2021
Prichal provides the Russian segment of the ISS with five new parking spots for space vehicles.
Nov 25, 2021
“This latest round of funding will dramatically accelerate our ability to make on-orbit servicing routine by 2030,” Astroscale founder and CEO Nobu Okada said.
Nov 24, 2021
Twenty-three years after the launch of the first module for the International Space Station in 1998, Russia is preparing to complete the construction of its segment with the launch of its last element—the Prichal Node Module.
Nov 24, 2021
DART separated from its Falcon 9 second stage just less than 56 min. after launching, a milestone followed by signal acquisition by the APL mission operations center 70 min. after liftoff.
Nov 23, 2021
The eldest daughter of Alan Shepard, the first American to venture into space, will fly on the Blue Origin suborbital spacecraft named after her father, the company said on Nov. 23.
Nov 23, 2021
Lockheed Martin on Nov. 23 announced the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (NGG) Block 0 program passed its system-level critical design review, keeping pace for the first launch in 2025.