Space Industry Analysis
Jul 08, 2019
A lot has changed in the U.S. space industry since the Apollo program 50 years ago, but not everything has.
Jul 08, 2019
The U.S. needs to unite around space exploration to achieve a goal worthy of being compared to the Apollo mission.
Jul 04, 2019
Today’s students will take humanity to the Moon and beyond, and we need to inspire them to succeed.
Jul 03, 2019
Fifty years later, solar system science still shaped by results from Apollo missions.
Jul 03, 2019
India plans to launch its second Moon mission this month and place humans in Earth orbit by the end of 2021.
Jul 02, 2019
The lessons from the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, shuttle and ISS wardrobes live on as NASA readies garments for Orion crews and astronauts assigned to low-Earth-orbit activities. And now NASA will have to outfit astronauts for Artemis.
Nov 22, 2022
The delay has been attributed to “the development of the ground test equipment rather than the ship itself.”
Nov 22, 2022
Startup STELLS Space Corp. plans to launch a mobile recharging station to the Moon by 2025.
Nov 21, 2022
On the eve of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ministerial council, 21 startup companies are requesting that member states approve a resolution for an open competition every time an institutional payload has to be placed into orbit.
Nov 21, 2022
German space startup Polaris Spaceplanes has performed the first flight of its spaceplane demonstrator built under a contract from the German defense ministry.
Nov 21, 2022
Five days into the Artemis I flight test, the Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft soared past the Moon, successfully conducting a 2-min. 30-sec. firing of its shuttle-era maneuvering engine on Nov. 21 to set up a slingshot maneuver into deeper space.
Nov 18, 2022
SpaceX has delayed by a day the planned launch from the Kennedy Space Center of the company’s 26th NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station, to address a small leak in a thermal control system.
Nov 18, 2022
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has contracted with Lockheed Martin Space to construct a digital twin of the Earth’s weather.
Nov 18, 2022
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) ministerial council plans to hear an ambitious €18.7 billion ($19.5 billion) proposal by a determined director general at its meeting Nov. 22-23.