Space Industry Analysis
Oct 09, 2015
Virgin Galactic wraps up a series of successful hot fire rocket tests and is nearing completion of its SpaceShip Two suborbital launch vehicle. Here is a look at the company's Mojave, California, operations.
Oct 09, 2015
Israeli satellite maker and subsidiary aim to offer data products collected from UAVs and ground-based sensors in addition to satellites.
Oct 09, 2015
The Google Lunar X-Prize was set to expire at the end of this year unless at least one of the competitors contracted for a launch first.
Oct 09, 2015
U.S. experts on Russian actions in Syria; FAA prepares big penalty for wayward UAV; over-cost defense programs face fines.
Oct 08, 2015
NASA is studying a modular habitat that could be stationed near the Moon.
Oct 08, 2015
Scientists, engineers and human spaceflight visionaries will gather in Jerusalem on Oct. 12 to ponder where to go in the Solar System after the International Space Station, how to get there and who will make the trip.
Oct 25, 2021
After conducting four crewed spaceflights, including a commercial mission without NASA oversight, SpaceX has won Russia’s backing to fly cosmonauts on its Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Oct 25, 2021
Israel Aerospace Industries is adding a miniaturized, 1,500-lb. geostationary communications satellite to its product line.
Oct 22, 2021
With the initial Space Launch System (SLS) assembly now complete at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the agency is looking to a Feb. 12-27 launch window for its uncrewed Artemis I test flight to the Moon.
Oct 22, 2021
Russia’s Progress MS-17 cargo capsule carried out a successful autonomous redocking with the International Space Station’s Russian segment Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module early Oct. 22 to complete a nearly 29-hr. relocation to set up Nauka propellant line leak checks.
Oct 21, 2021
The successful mission of a Russian movie crew to the International Space Station (ISS) Oct. 5-16 suggests the state space corporation Roscosmos is poised to resume a space tourism program. But despite the busy delivery schedule at the end of 2021, new space travelers are likely to fly Russian ships no earlier than 2023.
Oct 21, 2021
Ahead of NASA’s selection of up to four proposals to support development of commercial space stations, a team led by Nanoracks unveiled plans on Oct. 21 for a four-person outpost called Starlab, with initial operational capability expected by 2027.
Oct 21, 2021
The French ministry of armed forces is poised to improve its military communications with the upcoming launch of the Syracuse 4A satellite.
Oct 21, 2021
The U.S. Space Force has taken the next step to create a "deterrence layer" of orbital space vehicles that will keep track of enemy spacecraft.