Space Industry Analysis
Jul 01, 2013
It is a golden instrument, in more ways than one. NIRcam, the Near-Infrared Camera for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is wrapped in a gold insulating foil, the better to maintain its operating temperature of 35K (-397F). But it also will play a golden role for the three other instruments on the $8 billion mission, which is to put astronomy's largest orbiting observatory into service in 2018.
Jul 01, 2013
Reauthorization offers chance to set space goals
Jun 24, 2013
President Barack Obama's Brandenburg Gate call to eliminate up to a third of the U.S. nuclear arsenal has few ardent champions. And the remaining discontent may matter, since the cuts aren't likely to materialize while Obama is still in office. Republicans denounce the plan to reduce beyond the New Start treaty's limit of 1,550 deployed strategic warheads, and promise to set up procedural roadblocks in the Senate.
Jun 24, 2013
Chandra, Hubble expanding human knowledge
Jun 24, 2013
NASA issues a 'grand challenge' to boost asteroid-capture idea
Jun 24, 2013
The search is on as ULA is probed for allegedly blocking RD-180 sales
Nov 09, 2020
Working through unfunded Space Act Agreements with 17 U.S. companies, NASA has selected 20 space technologies it intends to help advance to enable future activities at destinations spanning from low Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars.
Nov 09, 2020
Slightly over 18 months since the Space Development Agency's launch, the first two elements of its future constellation are now defined and under contract.
Nov 09, 2020
NASA is striving to complete a series of eight critical Green Run tests of the Space Launch System core stage by year’s end, a milestone that in late September it had planned to achieve in early November before Hurricane Zeta struck the Gulf Coast.
Nov 09, 2020
The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has experienced another cable break, this one to a main cable which gave way late Nov. 6.
Nov 08, 2020
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine tells Aerospace DAILY the new administration will need "somebody they know and trust."
Nov 06, 2020
The sample material recently gathered from the asteroid Bennu’s surface by NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft shows evidence for containing the water and organic chemistry that mission scientists were hoping will be returned to Earth, scientists say.
Nov 06, 2020
An attempt to rapidly field Tranche 0 satellites for a new Tracking Layer in low Earth orbit faces delays after two companies filed protests seeking to overturn contract awards by the Space Development Agency.
Nov 06, 2020
LOS ANGELES—After a prolonged test preparation campaign, Virgin Galactic aims to conduct the first SpaceShipTwo (SS2) suborbital spaceflight attempt…