Space Industry Analysis

Dec 09, 2016
In 1962, John Glenn wrote a detailed pilot report for Aviation Week after his historic and harrowing flight in Mercury’s Friendship 7.
Dec 07, 2016
SpaceX has yet to present a final report to the FAA’s commercial space office, which licenses commercial launches, on the company's September pad explosion that destroyed an Israeli satellite.
Dec 01, 2016
NASA has decided to ease humans back to the Moon in a free-return flyaround trajectory on the first flight of the Orion crew capsule with astronauts on board, instead of going directly to the lunar orbit where it plans to test hardware for human missions to Mars.
Nov 23, 2016
European Space Agency engineers believe they have found the root cause of the Oct. 19 crash of the Schiaparelli Mars lander.
Nov 23, 2016
Researchers using radar data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have observed a subsurface ice deposit on the Red Planet that rivals the size of Lake Superior, the largest of the U.S. Great Lakes.
Oct 30, 2016
The first of Russia's upgraded Soyuz crew transports departed the International Space Station (ISS) late Oct. 29 and descended to Earth in remote Kazakhstan to end a 115 day assignment aboard the orbiting science laboratory for NASA's Kate Rubins, Russia's Anatoli Ivanishin and Japan's Takuya Onishi.
Oct 18, 2016
Orbital ATK’s Antares launch vehicle has returned to flight two years after a spectacular liftoff explosion en route to the International Space Station with a load of supplies.
Oct 17, 2016
Two Chinese astronauts have lifted off for the the Tiangong 2 docking target, a Salyut-class mini-space station acting as a training ground for operations at the larger orbital laboratory planned for launch in 2022.