Space Industry Analysis
Dec 03, 2015
The modified passenger 747-400 will be used to carry the space company’s LauncherOne vehicle to 35,000-40,000-ft. altitude from which it will be air-dropped and launched into orbit.
Dec 02, 2015
The FireSat system will result in revisit times about every 15 min., which begins to approach the warning an experienced firewatcher in a tower can provide firefighters by scanning forest treetops for smoke.
Dec 02, 2015
In November, ESA handed NASA the first tangible evidence of its contribution to the Orion development, a structural test article of the European Service Module (ESM) that in the coming months will undergo rigorous environmental trials.
Dec 02, 2015
A look at the space business shows the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Nov 30, 2015
Engineers and scientists are beginning to plan a program of robotic exploration over the next two decades to look for life on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Europa, the large icy moon of Jupiter, is first on the list.
Nov 30, 2015
Indra’s unmanned Tecnam P2006T; open-access FMS; ULA offers cubesat rides; renewable diesel leader backs Boeing; Arevo’s robot prints in true 3-D.
Nov 15, 2021
A week after returning to Earth from a 199-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the four U.S., European and Japanese Crew-2 Dragon astronauts expressed confidence in the orbital science lab’s future as it approaches the 23rd anniversary of its first element launch on Nov. 20.
Nov 15, 2021
The airless lunar environment will require some customized assessments by those inspired to initiate scientific inquiries or invest in the commercial ventures that NASA hopes will help it establish a sustained human presence at the Moon. This is where Houston’s Aegis Aerospace believes it could become game changing.
Nov 15, 2021
NASA has awarded seven U.S. coast-to-coast startups $90,000 each under its Entrepreneur’s Challenge program to advance the science capabilities of small satellite missions.
Nov 12, 2021
Indian private space company Digantara Research and Technologies has signed a contract with UK satellite startup Orbital Astronautics to launch a lidar-based debris-tracking payload.
Nov 12, 2021
Satellite-servicing startup Astroscale and a New Zealand government agency have signed an agreement to study the removal of three large debris objects from low-Earth orbit using a single servicer satellite.
Nov 12, 2021
The Dragon’s autonomous docking occurred at 6:32 p.m. EST Nov. 11, just under 40 min. earlier than initially projected.
Nov 11, 2021
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center at 9:03 p.m. EST on Nov. 10 to deliver a Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA.
Nov 10, 2021
Northrop Grumman has frozen the design for a satellite that could steer from low earth orbit an interceptor launched against a hypersonic glide vehicle or ballistic missile.