Space Industry Analysis
Mar 25, 2015
Commercial fleet operator SES is talking to Lockheed Martin and other suppliers about the potential to service spacecraft in geostationary orbit.
Mar 25, 2015
Moth inspires agile thinking; aerospike rocket looks for liftoff; tethered UAVs for safer cities; Amazon a step closer to delivery drones and other unmanned news
Mar 23, 2015
Driving down the costs of electronically steered phased arrays opens up new commercial and military opportunities.
Mar 21, 2015
During a March 17 luncheon Shotwell touched on developments underway at the Hawthorne, California-based company.
Mar 20, 2015
Aviation Week editors discuss how private sector money and technological advances are revolutionizing space telecom.
Mar 20, 2015
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr., a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, presented Aviation Week’s Tomorrow’s Leaders Award to students of four U.S. military services academies who have demonstrated overall excellence as well as a keen interest in pursuing various careers in aerospace.
Jul 21, 2021
Russia has successfully launched a new module for the International Space Station (ISS), lofting the 20-ton Nauka multipurpose scientific lab atop a Proton-M heavy launcher at 5:58 p.m. Moscow time (10:58 a.m. EDT) July 21 from Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan.
Jul 21, 2021
NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover is preparing to acquire its first sample of surface material.
Jul 21, 2021
German aerospace center DLR plans to develop a full-scale flight test version of an advanced, lightweight hybrid rocket engine following successful ground runs of a prototype at its Trauen site near Hamburg.
Jul 21, 2021
The International Space Station’s four U.S. segment crewmembers boarded their SpaceX Crew-2 Dragon capsule early July 21 to relocate the capsule from the Harmony module forward to the Harmony zenith docking port, freeing a parking spot for the arrival of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner.
Jul 20, 2021
The 10-min. suborbital spaceflight on July 20 marks the first time a crewed spacecraft made a debut flight without test pilots, test engineers or professional astronauts aboard.
Jul 20, 2021
Startup Rhea Space Activity is to study a solar-thermal propulsion system capable of rapidly repositioning a deep-space communications spacecraft for the U.S. Space Force.
Jul 19, 2021
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory ended a mission on May 31 that was studying advanced spacecraft control techniques and the challenges of flight in medium Earth orbit.
Jul 19, 2021
Rocket Lab has modified the design and manufacture of the igniter for the Rutherford engine after a fault in this system was identified as the root cause of the company’s Electron launch vehicle failure on May 15.