Space Industry Analysis

Nov 23, 2023
Major technical risks were retired by the performance of SpaceX’s Super Heavy rocket.
Nov 23, 2023
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Nov 22, 2023
Weak, angled signals from global navigation satellite system satellites are spawning new applications.
Nov 20, 2023
The 50-year-old GPS program is increasingly vulnerable to a proliferation of tools used to jam and spoof the weak and unencrypted civilian signal.
Nov 20, 2023
GPS has become a household term over the last 50 years. Over the coming decades, it is likely to be subsumed into another three-letter term, PNT.
Nov 17, 2023
The spacecraft is the Pentagon’s first experimental navigation satellite in nearly 50 years.
Dec 08, 2023
The FAA has agreed to a pair of recommendations from a GAO audit concerning current procedures for investigating commercial space mishaps.
Dec 07, 2023
Following an assessment of a sequence of gyroscope issues last month, NASA plans to resume Hubble Space Telescope science operations on Dec. 8.
Dec 07, 2023
DARPA has selected 14 companies to study designs for integrated lunar infrastructure as part of its 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) Capability Study.
Dec 06, 2023
NASA has amended plans to acquire a U.S. Deorbit Vehicle capable of executing a controlled deorbit of the International Space Station.
Dec 05, 2023
The 55th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 8 Christmas mission, the first by humans to fly around the Moon and send back imagery of the Earth, is just days away.
Dec 05, 2023
The Gamma variant is scheduled to follow into development the first two variants of the Space Development Agency's Tranche 2 Tracking Layer.
Dec 04, 2023
The SDA has issued its solicitation for a new, experimental satellite constellation to look for classified threats.
Dec 04, 2023
Intuitive Machines’ initial Nova-C lunar lander has arrived at Cape Canaveral for a launch under a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services agreement.