Space Industry Analysis
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.
Nov 10, 2020
Now planned from 2021-23, the transition between the current Ariane 5 and its successor may be complex for Arianespace.
Nov 06, 2020
MQ-9Bs for Taiwan?; Collins’ $700 million ejection seat win; New carrier delivery strategy; and Air Force opens space structures lab.
Nov 05, 2020
Building common ground for space becomes NASA’s political mantra.
Nov 04, 2020
NASA hastily packs up spacecraft for return trip home to avoid losing overflowing sample.
Nov 03, 2020
Falcon 9 engine issue delays first U.S.-launched ISS crew flight since the space shuttle.
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.
May 01, 2023
NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter will be repositioned for a new campaign following completion of its 50th sortie.
May 01, 2023
ViaSat-3 Americas, the first terabit-class communications satellite, reached orbit on May 1.
Apr 29, 2023
A team of scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston have successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil in a test.
Apr 29, 2023
A 52.5-ft.-long antenna for the ice-penetrating radar instrument aboard the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft has failed to fully deploy.
Apr 28, 2023
Two astronauts from NASA and the UAE conducted a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on April 28.
Apr 27, 2023
The UAE's Hope spacecraft became the first probe to visit the smaller of Mars’ two moons during a series of close-up flybys in March.