Space Industry Analysis
Nov 26, 2020
In bringing back samples, Chang’e 5 will demonstrate technology that China will need for sending people to the Moon.
Nov 23, 2020
Britain is stepping up space surveillance capabilities with a focus on attributing nefarious activity.
Nov 19, 2020
SpaceX becomes first company to win U.S. government certification of human spaceflight system.
Nov 18, 2020
Transformation of heritage aerospace contractor shows old dogs can learn new tricks.
Nov 17, 2020
Launch service operator Arianespace has traced the cause of the Nov. 16 failure of a Vega rocket to an improperly connected electrical harness on the launcher’s Avum engine.
Nov 10, 2020
SDA director Derek Tournear joins Aviation Week editors on Check 6 to discuss how its system of space tracking and transport satellites will revolutionize the U.S. military and the challenges it will face along the way.
May 04, 2023
The resourcing of solid rocket motors has been a key priority for the Pentagon, with the surge of munitions shipped to Ukraine highlighting the limited supply.
May 04, 2023
Cosmonauts made progress with an upgrade to the International Space Station (ISS) Russian segment’s Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module.
May 03, 2023
Turkey has named a former air force F-16 pilot as its first astronaut.
May 02, 2023
The Airbus Perlan 2 stratospheric glider is en route to South America.
May 02, 2023
Lulav Space’s engineers gained experience with lunar guidance, navigation and control via prior work on the Beresheet 1 lunar lander mission in 2019.
May 02, 2023
The multiyear MSR mission is being jointly led by NASA and the European Space Agency.
May 01, 2023
Twenty-seven seconds into the flight an “energetic event” caused a communications breakdown with another engine, No. 19.
May 01, 2023
The effort is using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), located about 50 mi. west of Socorro, New Mexico.