Space Industry Analysis
Jun 10, 2019
Eric Trappier speaks with Aviation Week about Franco-German cooperation for a future combat air system and ambitions for a spaceplane.
Jun 10, 2019
Ampaire flies hybrid; Amazon drone delivers; KLM backs Flying-V; Honeywell FBW for UAM; Uber Copter in New York; Volocopter’s urban air plans.
Jun 07, 2019
The Ariane 6 program appears to be on time and has received some financial support from the European Space Agency.
Jun 06, 2019
FAA moves a step closer to automating the monitoring of space-launch-and-reentry vehicles in real time as they transition the national airspace system.
Jun 04, 2019
The TQ-12 engine is ultimately intended to become reusable, which was one reason for the choice of clean-burning methane fuel.
Jun 03, 2019
Embraer goes electric; NASA seeks electrified propulsion; LEO serving satellite; shape-memory nacelle cooling; quantum interest.
Nov 16, 2022
The most powerful rocket NASA has ever built lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 16, ending years of delays in the debut of the Artemis Moon program.
Nov 15, 2022
NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio resumed the agency’s efforts to upgrade the International Space Station’s solar power-generation system, with a 7-hr. spacewalk.
Nov 15, 2022
NASA managers clear the Artemis I launch team at the Kennedy Space Center to begin fueling the Space Launch System rocket for a long-delayed debut flight to put an uncrewed Orion spacecraft into a distant lunar orbit.
Nov 15, 2022
AST SpaceMobile has deployed what it says is the “largest-ever” commercial communications array in low-Earth orbit.
Nov 15, 2022
The two-hour launch window on Nov. 16 closes at 3:04 a.m. The mission marks the first flight of the SLS, which has been in development for more than a decade.
Nov 14, 2022
SpaceX’s 26th NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station has been readied to deliver assorted science and technology payloads focused on human deep-space exploration challenges.
Nov 14, 2022
There was approximately 2 hr. 7 min. between launch of the Tianzhou-5 cargo spacecraft and it docking with the Tiangong space station.
Nov 14, 2022
NASA managers have cleared the Kennedy Space Center launch team to start the two-day countdown for launch, but two technical issues that surfaced during post-hurricane inspections and tests still need to be resolved.