Space Industry Analysis
Feb 04, 2015
NASA’s fiscal 2016 budget request continues to feature past policies, and is likely to experience past partisan battles on Capitol Hill as well.
Feb 03, 2015
Estonia spends several hundred million euros a year on space activities.
Feb 02, 2015
Since unveiling plans in January to build rival networks of hundreds, or even thousands, of Internet satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO), SpaceX and OneWeb are prompting comparisons with past ventures that flopped, among them Teledesic and Skybridge, two well-financed start-ups whose visions of delivering high-speed broadband to the masses were thwarted by technical setbacks.
Jan 30, 2015
NASA and its commercial crew partners open up about their plans, now that the legal hurdles have been cleared.
Jan 29, 2015
Early work is underway on an expendable version of the space shuttle main engine, which will power the heavy-lift Space Launch System.
Jan 29, 2015
SpaceX-USAF legal settlement offers little near-term gain for SpaceX, but it appears to serve the company’s strategic goals.
Jun 21, 2021
During a 6.5-hr. spacewalk that concluded at 2:10 p.m. EDT on June 20, the European Space Agency’s Thomas Pesquet and NASA’s Shane Kimbrough overcame the hardware obstructions that had prevented them from finishing their task four days earlier.
Jun 21, 2021
Debate about whether UFOs existed – and the Pentagon was covering up their existence -- was covered extensively in Aviation Week & Space Technology more than 50 years ago. And our reporting had a decidedly anti-extra-terrestrial bent.
Jun 18, 2021
Former space shuttle commander and retired U.S. Air Force Col. Pamela Melroy was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the deputy administrator of NASA, serving alongside NASA chief Bill Nelson.
Jun 18, 2021
The inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket is slipping to 2022 to allow more time for its customer, Astrobotic, to prepare its Peregrine lunar lander for launch.
Jun 17, 2021
A new space-based capability for tracking moving targets on the ground will use satellites owned by the intelligence community and commercial…
Jun 17, 2021
The U.S. Space Force and SpaceX has launched the fifth GPS III satellite from Space Launch Complex-40 at Cape Canaveral, marking the first time a national security space launch reused a booster.
Jun 17, 2021
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency on June 16 were prevented from equipping the International Space Station (ISS) with the first of six planned Roll Out Solar Arrays, due to a spacesuit issue and hardware misalignment.
Jun 17, 2021
At around 4:30 p.m. local time, Shenzhou-12 successfully docked with the Tianhe core module using an autonomous docking system.