Space Industry Analysis
Jul 08, 2015
How to get to Mars is only part of the question. NASA calls for ideas on the best places to actually land, optimal also for living, mining resources and conducting scientific exploration.
Jul 08, 2015
Russia’s Progress 60 resupply vehicle delivered supplies to ISS crew, along with a sense of relief to space handlers worldwide in the aftermath of a spate of resupply mission launch failures.
Jul 05, 2015
"...feels like Chrismas in July," say space station cosmonauts. "The presents are here."
Jul 03, 2015
"Everything went by the book," noted Rob Navias, a NASA public affairs officer who monitored Friday's Progress 60 launching from the agency's Mission Control Center in Houston. "A flawless ride to orbit."
Jul 02, 2015
Lapse in Ex-Im bank assistance could hurt Boeing in the long term, and the general aviation community sooner; Former NASA chief provides another perspective on SpaceX’s commercial viability.
Jul 02, 2015
What will happen when New Horizons hurtles past the icy dwarf planet and its five moons on July 14?
Sep 07, 2021
Inspiration4, the first all-civilian astronaut crew to orbit the Earth, will be doing a lot more than gazing out the windows of their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
Sep 07, 2021
As NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission team worked to verify the successful collection of the large rover’s first sample of rock from the red planet, the rover’s companion Ingenuity helicopter drone took flight over the Labor Day weekend for the 13th time.
Sep 07, 2021
The European OEM says it wants to make Australia’s defense satcom transition to a sovereign capability “as easy as possible.”
Sep 07, 2021
German plans for offshore satellite launch have been boosted by the support of four launch providers.
Sep 06, 2021
One of the four engines on the company’s two-stage Alpha rocket shut down about 15 sec. after liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sept. 2.
Sep 03, 2021
Cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov carried out the first of a potential 11 spacewalks outside the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) on Sept. 3 to prepare the recently arrived Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module for future operations.
Sep 03, 2021
Russia plans to test a drip-type radiant cooler for its future nuclear space tug on the International Space Station.
Sep 03, 2021
Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket exploded less than 2 min. after liftoff on Sept. 2, ending a debut flight test some 10 years in the making.