Space Industry Analysis
Mar 19, 2014
A career in aerospace and defense awaits twenty exceptional students who were recognized as "Tomorrow's Engineering Leaders: The Twenty20s."
Mar 19, 2014
With a rainbow-colored rack of toy dart guns on the wall, a foosball table in the break room and a dress code of t-shirts and jeans, SI Government Solutions looks more like a Silicon Valley startup than part of a big defense company.
Mar 19, 2014
But what if the ball itself made noise? A new “3-D Audio” system for military pilots does exactly that, alerting aviators to the exact direction and type of threat coming toward them.
Mar 19, 2014
But over the next 65 years Raytheon BBN Technologies would go far beyond acoustics: pioneering the Internet, creating e-mail and developing everything from translation software to battlefield sensors.
Mar 19, 2014
Sensing possible danger, the soldier doesn’t reach for his weapon—instead, he reaches for his Android smartphone.
Mar 19, 2014
In one alley, the Stryker’s crew can clearly see a man sweeping his stoop with a broom –no threat to this patrol.
Feb 19, 2021
With NASA’s newest Mars rover safely on the ground, surface operations teams at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have replaced the flight control team that oversaw Perseverance’s Feb. 18 pinpoint landing inside Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient lake.
Feb 19, 2021
Northrop Grumman’s 15th NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station is undergoing preparations for a Feb. 20 launch from the agency’s Wallops Island Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
Feb 18, 2021
NASA’s independent Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel raised a number of concerns about the International Space Station Feb. 18 during its first quarterly meeting of 2021.
Feb 18, 2021
Perseverance is NASA’s fifth rover and ninth spacecraft to safely reach the surface of Mars.
Feb 18, 2021
BlackSky, a startup with a burgeoning constellation of imaging satellites and its own data analytics service, will become a publicly traded company.
Feb 18, 2021
The target launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner commercial space taxi on a second flight test is being delayed from March 25 to April 2 to complete replacement and testing of avionics boxes following a power surge at Starliner’s Kennedy Space Center processing facility.
Feb 17, 2021
Launch services provider Spaceflight Inc. has purchased NewSpace India Ltd.’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle to launch Spaceflight’s largest spacecraft to date at the end of February from Sriharikota, India.
Feb 17, 2021
NASA is targeting Feb. 25 for a second attempt at a 485-sec., full-duration “hot fire” of the Space Launch System’s four core-stage RS-25 liquid-hydrogen and oxygen-fueled rocket engines at Stennis Space Center.