Space Industry Analysis

Dec 14, 2020
Gen. John Raymond, the chief of space operations, looks back at the first year of operations for the U.S. Space Force and ahead at what is to come…
Dec 14, 2020
A crop of developmental projects are set to come to fruition over the next 12 months as new projects enter the design phase.
Dec 14, 2020
Public trials of SpaceX satellite broadband service are underway.
Dec 11, 2020
Skyborg protoype awards; MQ-25 flies with refueling store; Northrop sheds IT division; and new council for commercial space.
Dec 10, 2020
NASA and BOEING are targeting March 29 launch of Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test (Orbital Flight Test-2) to the International Space Station…
May 09, 2023
Astroscale U.S. and Momentus have submitted a joint bid to boost NASA’s Hubble space telescope to a higher orbit using a robotic spacecraft.
May 09, 2023
The prospect is based on still-maturing research underway aboard the ISS and Earth-based research and technology labs.
May 09, 2023
Bids are due in U.S. bankruptcy court later this month.
May 08, 2023
Less than a year after losing their ride to space, a pair of novel hurricane-tracking cubesats have been delivered into orbit for NASA.
May 08, 2023
The U.S. Space Force wants industry feedback on its new approach to buying satellites for its space test experiments.
May 08, 2023
Momentus’ Vigoride-5 space tug has raised its orbit using its microwave electrothermal thruster, a propulsion system that uses distilled water as a propellant.
May 08, 2023
While much of NASA’s future human exploration focus falls toward deep space, the agency is not turning its back on low Earth orbit.
May 08, 2023
Virgin Galactic plans to return to space later this month with a fully crewed test flight of the refurbished SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity.