Space Industry Analysis
Jan 14, 2015
ULA expects its first—and possibly only—Orbital Sciences Cygnus capsule to arrive in Florida late this summer for a launch targeted for the last quarter of the year. Orbital Sciences has an option for a second flight in 2016.
Jan 14, 2015
The three-year, $916 million SMAP mission will give weather forecasters in agricultural regions an early warning signal for drought and allow better near-term flood warnings.
Jan 12, 2015
"We are pretty thrilled up here," ISS Commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore informed NASA's Mission Control Center.
Jan 12, 2015
Despite its failure to thwart NASA’s selection of Boeing and SpaceX for commercial crew vehicles, Sierra Nevada will proceed with development of Dream Chaser.
Jan 10, 2015
Aviation Week editors Graham Warwick and Guy Norris discuss with Joe Anselmo what the future looks like from the annual American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics conference.
Jan 08, 2015
Can NASA avoid the mistakes of the past or will it finally avoid funding costly diversions to human space exploration?
Jun 09, 2021
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter completed a seventh excursion through the skies of Mars on June 8, traveling south 348 ft. in 62.8 sec. as part of a series of flight tests to prepare for future aerial planetary exploration campaigns.
Jun 09, 2021
NASA’s Lunar IceCube has completed prelaunch environmental testing at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, in preparation for its flight as a secondary payload aboard the Artemis I mission later this year.
Jun 09, 2021
An upcoming Pentagon report concludes that classified U.S. technology is not behind the hundreds of UAP sightings by military pilots and other credible witnesses.
Jun 08, 2021
City of Houston officials joined with Collins Aerospace on June 7 to ceremonially break ground on the construction of an 8-acre campus on the grounds of Houston Spaceport.
Jun 08, 2021
The equity financing round will fund development of Relativity's fully reusable, Falcon 9-class booster Terran R.
Jun 07, 2021
Air Force officials described the broad outlines of the Rocket Cargo Vanguard program during a media roundtable on June 4 at the Pentagon, but contract solicitation documents released on the same day provide deeper insights into the Air Force’s plans for the potentially $250 million demonstration program.
Jun 07, 2021
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said he will be aboard for the first crewed flight of the company’s New Shepard suborbital space transportation system, along with his brother Mark, the winner of an ongoing auction and possibly up to three additional passengers.
Jun 06, 2021
SpaceX conducted its 18th Falcon 9 launch of the year on June 6, pausing the deployment of its own Starlink communications network to deliver a 7,500-lb. satellite into orbit for SiriusXM’s digital radio service.