Space Industry Analysis
Mar 04, 2013
More than 280 Earth-observation-satellite systems are planned
Mar 04, 2013
Size can matter when it comes to prizes and, for one of last remaining competitions for human endeavor in flight, a significant boost in the purse has spurred a neck-and-neck race for the finish line. By the time these words are read, one of the longest-standing prizes in aviation could have been won, with two teams vying for the American Helicopter Society (AHS) International's $250,000 Sikorsky Prize for a human-powered helicopter.
Mar 04, 2013
Entrepreneurial space ventures born from X Prize are about to bear fruit
Mar 04, 2013
Tito sees mission shaping future spaceflight, even if it doesn't fly
Mar 04, 2013
Solving a problem for NASA carries a cachet that ensures there is a strong response whenever the space agency posts a challenge to any of the online communities it uses to crowd-source new ideas.
Mar 04, 2013
The penalty that everyone said was too painful to occur is now happening, with Congress's failure to pass a deal to prevent nearly $1 trillion in government spending cuts over a decade. Now the question is how long the pain will last.
Sep 10, 2020
NASA on Sept. 10 released a solicitation to buy 50-500 grams of lunar regolith, at a price of $15,000-25,000, a mission not for science but to set the legal precedent for owning resources extracted from the Moon and other bodies in the Solar System.
Sep 10, 2020
After repeated attempts to sell a solid-propellant, heavy-lift space launcher to the U.S. national security community, Northrop Grumman is discontinuing work on its Omega rocket, the company said Sept. 10.
Sep 10, 2020
Charles Bolden, a retired U.S. Marine Corps major general, former NASA administrator and four-time shuttle astronaut, has been selected to receive the National Aeronautic Association’s (NAA) 2020 Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy.
Sep 10, 2020
SIREN appears to share similar objectives with the National Security Space Architecture launched by the Space Development Agency (SDA), except the AFRL initiative is limited to potential demonstrations and experiments.
Sep 09, 2020
NASA is turning to its Commercial Lunar Payload Services providers to bid on the delivery of 10 science investigations and technology demonstrations to a nonpolar region of the Moon in 2022.
Sep 09, 2020
Catherine Koerner has assumed management responsibility for development and operations of NASA’s Orion program headquartered at Johnson Space Center.
Sep 08, 2020
While NASA strives through the Artemis Accords to promote peaceful efforts to explore the Moon, the Vienna-based Moon Village Association is assessing how to achieve a similar outcome through its Best Practices for Sustainable Lunar Activity.
Sep 06, 2020
The mission adds China to an exclusive club of countries that have landed an orbital, reusable spacecraft.