Space Industry Analysis
Dec 18, 2014
Company opts to conduct second Falcon 9 static fire test before launch.
Dec 18, 2014
Sipri report on global arms sales shows Russia and emerging-market suppliers continuing to gain ground on companies in the U.S. and Western Europe.
Dec 18, 2014
See a selection of space entries from our annual Photo Contest.
Dec 17, 2014
The request for information lists several generic possibilities, including beaming power between orbiting spacecraft, from an orbiting spacecraft to a “planetary asset,” and between fixed and mobile assets on a planetary surface.
Dec 17, 2014
Iridium, Thales offer broadband connectivity to Bristow Helicopters, mitigating problems caused by interference from rotors.
Dec 16, 2014
Orbital Sciences Corp. will buy directly from Russia’s NPO Energomash a new rocket engine with a long heritage to replace the surplus Russian engines tentatively implicated in the Oct. 28 failure of an Antares launch vehicle with a load of cargo for the International Space Station.
May 28, 2021
The Biden administration has proposed substantial boosts in spending across NASA’s human exploration, planetary science, and Earth science/climate research as part of a 2022 budget proposal that could ease the previous administration’s plans to return to the Moon’s surface with U.S. astronauts in 2024.
May 28, 2021
The Pentagon’s fiscal 2022 budget request proposed $936.7 million for the U.S. Space Development Agency, which is an increase of $600 million or 36% compared to the previous year.
May 28, 2021
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is working with Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy to build a transformable lunar robot to collect data on the Moon’s surface to use in development of a manned pressurized rover.
May 27, 2021
Constellation operator OneWeb is to lead a consortium of UK companies in developing a next-generation beam-hopping low Earth orbit communications satellite.
May 27, 2021
The Court of Justice of the European Union has dismissed OHB System’s request to reverse the European Space Agency’s decision to exclude the company from a program creating the second generation of Galileo navigation satellites.
May 27, 2021
NASA is unlikely to achieve the 2024 goal of returning human explorers to the Moon’s surface set by the Trump White House in 2019, according to a second doubtful assessment from the U.S. Government Accountability Office within a week.
May 27, 2021
Russia and Saudi Arabia are preparing a joint crewed space mission, according to Russian Vice Premier Alexander Novak.
May 26, 2021
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket delivered the 29th batch of Starlink satellites into orbit on May 26 as the company expanded beta trials of its high-speed internet service to Belgium and the Netherlands.