Space Industry Analysis
Nov 25, 2015
The test aimed to deploy the six-seat crew capsule into suborbit for a planned 4-min. weightless period, but attention was focused on whether the rocket stage could be successfully recovered using the tricky vertical-powered-landing technique.
Nov 24, 2015
Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket will fly again after achieving an intact powered vertical landing of the launch vehicle and parachute recovery of the unpiloted crew capsule to conclude a test flight.
Nov 24, 2015
Blue Origin has successfully launched and landed a reusable rocket for the first time. The New Shepard space vehicle flew to just over 329,000 feet before landing safety at its launch site in Texas. Check out Blue Origin's video of the rocket's test flight.
Nov 23, 2015
Flutter-suppression X-56 crashes; laser IDs target by vibrations; new venture to commercialize morphing structures; Airbus helo R&D in the U.K.; Iceye’s low-cost radar imaging from space.
Nov 20, 2015
Scientists are pointing their telescopes at an Earth-sized exoplanet that orbits a star 39 light years away.
Nov 20, 2015
Bomber lobby lays the groundwork for the kind of attack on its budget now threatening the F-35; new space bill allows citizens to mine the Moon for its water ice.
Nov 10, 2021
About 6 hr. ahead of when SpaceX was due to launch four new crewmembers to the International Space Station on Nov. 10, Russia conducted a 361-sec. burn of the station’s core module to maneuver the outpost away from a potential conjunction with a piece of orbital debris from China’s 2007 ASAT test.
Nov 09, 2021
Development costs for NASA’s Orion deep-space capsule through the Artemis II crewed flight test—which is now not expected until May 2024—will increase by $2.5 billion due to an expanded scope of work, delays from pandemic-related supply issues and other factors, boosting the program’s overall cost to $9.3 billion.
Nov 09, 2021
The crew's replacements are set to be launched to the International Space Station Nov. 10 on the SpaceX Crew-3 Dragon Endurance spacecraft.
Nov 08, 2021
The SpaceX Crew-2 Dragon autonomously undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) Nov. 8 and prepared for a parachute-assisted, late-night splashdown and recovery in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida.
Nov 08, 2021
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s latest survey of scientific priorities in the fields of astronomy and astrophysics over the coming decade recommends that NASA reassess how its most costly and ambitious “flagship” missions are pursued, from planning through implementation.
Nov 05, 2021
NASA and SpaceX on Nov. 5 continued to assess how best to schedule a planned crew rotation aboard the International Space Station in response to a challenging weather outlook affecting a Falcon 9 Crew-3 Dragon launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Nov 05, 2021
The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, French national space center CNES and Airbus have inked a letter of intent to cooperate on Earth-observation satellites, including development of VNREDSat-2.
Nov 04, 2021
Equipped with emerging propulsion and navigation technologies, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test is intended to demonstrate for the first time the potential effectiveness of a kinetic impact strategy in deflecting an asteroid on a destructive collision course with Earth.