Space Industry Analysis
Jan 26, 2015
The boom in small Earth-observation satellites is expanding a market in which businesses and governments alike can gather valuable insight for monitoring climate change, political hot spots, business activities and disaster zones.
Jan 26, 2015
Test-flight data for the Orion crew capsule heat shield will be important in the redesign process.
Jan 26, 2015
Canadian startup UrtheCast seeks to secure its future with revenues from imagery services and ISS commercial experiments.
Jan 26, 2015
Global demand for Earth-observation satellites booming, mainly from emerging countries lacking their own space programs.
Jan 26, 2015
Thanks to relatively abundant power, improved data links and a unique orbit, the ISS is an attractive vantage point for instruments designed to study Earth. Researchers are taking notice.
Jan 26, 2015
France seeks European partners for Musis imaging satellite program.
Jun 17, 2021
Russia says it is ready to discuss the future of the International Space Station (ISS) despite earlier threats to withdraw from the program after 2024.
Jun 16, 2021
Shenzhou-12 will blast off on a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan satellite launch center in the Gobi Desert at 9:22 a.m. local time on June 17.
Jun 16, 2021
Space situation-awareness startup LeoLabs plans to locate its next space radar in the Azores, the Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic.
Jun 15, 2021
The classified NROL-111 mission is NRO’s final scheduled launch for 2021.
Jun 15, 2021
The head of Russia’s Roscosmos State Corp., Dmitry Rogozin, has proposed creating a legal responsibility for leaving debris in orbit.
Jun 15, 2021
Russian intends to fly cosmonauts to the Chinese Space Station, launching Soyuz capsules from its own Vostochny Cosmodrome or Europe’s Kourou, French Guiana, spaceport, though neither site has yet supported a human spaceflight, the head of Roscosmos, the Russian State Space Corp., said on June 15.
Jun 15, 2021
Rocket Lab will provide two Photon satellites for a NASA-backed small-science mission to explore the magnetosphere of Mars.
Jun 14, 2021
The U.S. Space Force is gearing up for the first-ever National Security Space Launch featuring a reusable booster that is scheduled to send the fifth GPS III satellite into space.