Space Industry Analysis
Oct 16, 2015
Here is Aviation Week’s exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the new Sbirs ops center and why it is ushering in an “explosion” of new ways to use overhead infrared data for intelligence and civil, war operations.
Oct 16, 2015
Israel’s growing space economy looks beyond limited domestic markets in telecom, Earth observation and science as it expands into international commercial business.
Oct 16, 2015
House to vote on Ex-Im Bank at last. Army studies Russian UAV ops in Ukraine. NASA plans for a return to the Moon in the long run. And the State Department prepares to sell Black Hawks to Saudi Arabia.
Oct 14, 2015
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden says the congressionally mandated U.S. ban preventing space cooperation with China is “temporary.”
Oct 14, 2015
Internecine warfare within the House Republican caucus is exacerbating the budget politics that complicated NASA’s Mars mission planning.
Oct 14, 2015
Glide and powered test flights of SpaceShipTwo are expected to resume in 2016.
Oct 28, 2021
Russia’s MS-18 Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station was on course for a late Oct. 29 docking with a nearly 3-ton cargo of food, water, crew supplies and propellant following a successful launch from Kazakhstan.
Oct 28, 2021
Russia plans to spend about $1 billion to develop and flight test a partly reusable, methane-powered orbital launch vehicle known as Amur SPG (“liquid natural gas” in Russian) with a first stage designed to return to its launch site.
Oct 27, 2021
The planned launch of the NASA-contracted SpaceX Crew-3 Dragon mission to the International Space Station promises to boost from nine to 11 the number of astronauts with spaceflight experience named to the agency’s Artemis Team.
Oct 26, 2021
A new satellite launched by China on Oct. 24 will be used mostly for testing an unspecified space debris mitigation technology, state-owned news media and government agencies say.
Oct 26, 2021
The four Crew-3 astronauts arrived at Kennedy Space Center as scheduled Oct. 26, expressing confidence an assessment of a toilet issue aboard their SpaceX Crew-3 Dragon Endurance and the Crew-2 Dragon Endeavour currently docked to the International Space Station (ISS) will be resolved in time to support their planned liftoff.
Oct 26, 2021
NASA and SpaceX this week will focus on closing out an assessment of changes made to the toilet aboard the Crew-3 Dragon spacecraft prior to its scheduled Oct. 31 launch to the International Space Station.
Oct 26, 2021
Japan successfully launched the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIA rocket on the morning of Oct. 26 local time from the Tanegashima Space Center.
Oct 25, 2021
A team of heritage and new space companies headed by Blue Origin and Sierra Space plan to build, launch and operate an International Space Station-class commercial outpost in low Earth orbit that can be tailored and expanded to accommodate a broad array of scientific, technological, business, entertainment and other pursuits.