Space Industry Analysis
Apr 22, 2015
Four years after the first Sbirs GEO launch, USAF pushes to get more infrared data to users in the field.
Apr 22, 2015
Given budget pressures, space industry increasingly using additive manufacturing to make components more flexibly and at lower cost
Apr 21, 2015
"We definitely look forward to the espresso machine," astronaut Scott Kelly, NASA's ISS marathoner, told Russia Today. "I know a lot of people are interested in it."
Apr 15, 2015
"These finding have implications for planetary protection policies for future landed spacecraft," according to the Nature Geoscience report. "Cl-bearing brines are very corrosive and this may have implications on spacecraft design and surface operations."
Apr 15, 2015
Despite tensions, U.S. and Russia are still cooperating in civil space. Now it’s time to bring China into the fold.
Apr 15, 2015
The company is striving to keep average cost of a new Vulcan rocket under $100 million as it preps for competition against SpaceX.
Aug 06, 2021
Building on their cooperation to install a first-of-kind space surveillance radar, LeoLabs and the New Zealand Space Agency have announced a multiyear agreement to develop a space regulatory and sustainability platform.
Aug 04, 2021
Launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on a long-awaited reflight demonstration to the International Space Station remained on hold while engineers assessed options to address an issue with valves in the spacecraft’s propulsion system.
Aug 04, 2021
The first orbital-class SpaceX Falcon Super Heavy rocket, outfitted with 29 methane-burning Raptor engines, was moved to its launch mount in Boca Chica, Texas, on Aug. 3.
Aug 04, 2021
NASA and its partners are using the International Space Station to better understand how samples of muscle tissue donated on Earth are changed at the cellular levels by spaceflight.
Aug 03, 2021
Those with research and technology connections to the NASA-led International Space Station believe the door has been opened for at least another decade of significant development activity.
Aug 03, 2021
The string of delays for the reflight of an uncrewed Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station continued on Aug. 3, with the next opportunity for launch available on Aug. 4.
Aug 03, 2021
After 3-D printing dozens of tools since its arrival aboard the International Space Station in 2016, the Made in Space Manufacturing Device will have a new assignment once Northrop Grumman’s 16th NASA-contracted resupply mission reaches the ISS with a new Redwire Regolith Print extruder and other hardware.
Aug 02, 2021
China private rocket company Deep Blue Aerospace has successfully conducted the country’s first vertical takeoff/vertical landing trial of the Nebula-M reusable rocket after a series of ignition tests in late July.