Space Industry Analysis

Jan 12, 2022
How the U.S. Air Force is evolving; HawkEye 360’s new investor; Space spare parts in short supply; and Fighter jets crash in Asia.
Jan 07, 2022
After a painful, prolonged development, NASA’s new space telescope is on its way.
Jan 07, 2022
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Jan 06, 2022
Virgin Orbit’s disappointing stock debut marks the end of the beginning of the special purpose acquisition company phenomenon.
Jan 05, 2022
French space agency’s invitation to use Kourou spaceport may help European microlauncher projects meet hoped-for high demand.
Jan 03, 2022
A 13-year project pays off with Brazil’s first hypersonic-speed flight test.
Aug 08, 2023
Russia has started to modernize its Glonass space-based navigation system with a new generation of satellites.
Aug 08, 2023
Lockheed Martin has opened a 20,000-ft.2 small satellite assembly facility at its Waterton campus in Littleton, Colorado.
Aug 07, 2023
Amazon plans to take advantage of an earlier opportunity to fly a pair of test satellites for its Kuiper broadband constellation.
Aug 07, 2023
Redesigning and testing part of the parachute system on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will delay a long-awaited crew flight test (CFT) until March 2024 at the earliest.
Aug 07, 2023
Pale Blue has won a contract to provide its Resitojet water-vapor based propulsion system for a pair of 6U cubesats.
Aug 07, 2023
SpaceX has hot fired the engines of its next Super Heavy booster as it prepared for a second flight test of an integrated Starship-Super Heavy vehicle.
Aug 07, 2023
India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft reached lunar orbit on Aug. 5, setting the stage for a landing attempt on the Moon's south pole later this month. 
Aug 06, 2023
The resumption of communications through NASA’s Deep Space Network follows a “shout” command transmitted to the probe by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.