Space Industry Analysis
May 05, 2021
A look back at Alan Shepard’s flight to suborbital space—a first for the U.S.
Apr 30, 2021
Up to five test runs of the rotorcraft are planned by May 4.
Apr 30, 2021
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Apr 30, 2021
First mission is to send an uncrewed Orion capsule into lunar orbit.
Apr 30, 2021
Dave Calhoun is giving himself a dual mandate of returning Boeing to financial eminence while reinstalling engineering prowess. The gambit could decide the embattled company’s fate.
Apr 30, 2021
The less-remembered third Apollo 11 astronaut also helped to establish the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
Jun 15, 2023
Arianespace is delaying the launch of its final Ariane 5 rocket due to a possible technical issue with the booster.
Jun 14, 2023
The research findings back the premise that most, if not all, Earth water originated through asteroid collisions during the Solar System’s planet-forming era.
Jun 13, 2023
The company is developing a 62-ft. (19-m), two-stage rocket to deliver satellites weighing up to 397 lb. into low Earth orbit.
Jun 13, 2023
Spire Global launched a pair of 6U cubesats with laser communications payloads aboard the SpaceX Transporter-8 mission on June 12.
Jun 13, 2023
Japan's new Space Security Initiative aims to expand the use of space-based technology to complement its defense requirements.
Jun 12, 2023
The U.S. Space Force’s top planning division is starting to look at the next generation of precision navigation and timing capabilities from orbit.
Jun 12, 2023
Hypersonix Launch Systems is prepping to begin tests of a scramjet made from high-temperature ceramic matrix composites, as part of a planned launch system.
Jun 09, 2023
NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg installed a fifth ISS Roll Out Solar Array on the International Space Station’s lengthy solar power truss.