Space Industry Analysis
May 20, 2013
Scientists have “terabytes” of data from NASA's Kepler extra-solar planet-finder to analyze, but the failure of a second reaction control wheel on the space telescope probably means it will not be able to measure more of the faint flickers of distant stars when a planet passes in front of them.
May 20, 2013
U.S. Air Force controllers will slot an updated GPS satellite into the mid-Earth-orbit timing and navigation constellation following its successful launch May 15 on this United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 from Cape Canaveral. Liftoff of the 3,600-lb. spacecraft came at the opening of its launch window at 5:38 p.m. EDT. The launch vehicle's Centaur upper stage ignited twice during the 3-hr. 24-min. mission and included a 3-hr. coast phase between burns.
May 06, 2013
Sequestration setting up NASA for more start-stop development
May 06, 2013
Additive manufacturing could create structures from lunar materials
May 06, 2013
German research aims to speed composites production through collaborative automation
May 06, 2013
Japanese space programs face strict new reality
Oct 20, 2020
NASA and the European Space Agency have signed contracts with privately owned Nanoracks to use the company’s Bishop airlock, which is due to be delivered to the International Space Station next month.
Oct 20, 2020
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is proposing to use improved versions of its H3 rocket as a launcher for lunar supply.
Oct 19, 2020
With the arrival of 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit on Oct. 18 and another 60 due to launch this week, SpaceX intends to roll out public trials of its high-speed internet service before year’s end.
Oct 19, 2020
The modest sample of pebbles and soil that NASA’s Osiris-Rex sample return mission will attempt to gather from the asteroid Bennu may hold important clues to how life arose on Earth and perhaps other planetary bodies.
Oct 19, 2020
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory is supporting the Space Development Agency by building a hardware and software testbed for optical communications to enable interoperability between different satellites.
Oct 19, 2020
NASA has selected Intuitive Machines to launch and deliver a drill and mass spectrometer payload to the Moon by December 2022 to seek out seek out and attempt to harvest subsurface water ice at the lunar south pole for the first time.
Oct 19, 2020
There is promising new science on the horizon as NASA’s nimble Osiris-Rex sample return spacecraft prepares for a daring brief encounter on Oct. 20 with its distant target, the primitive asteroid Bennu.
Oct 16, 2020
The lack of an appropriations bill passed by Congress and signed into law by the president is forcing the U.S. Space Force to slow down some of its work.