Space Industry Analysis
Feb 08, 2019
Methane and liquid oxygen engine hits 60% of maximum thrust during 2-sec. debut.
Feb 07, 2019
New Horizons surveys Ultima Thule, a twin-lobed body that formed in situ in the Kuiper Belt.
Jan 31, 2019
With the possible exception of bombs exploding, nothing in aerospace unleashes such power so quickly as hurling a launch vehicle from the pad into orbit.
Jan 30, 2019
Hoping for a massive increase in its space safety budget, ESA presses on with a joint asteroid deflection mission with NASA.
Jan 25, 2019
Allowing corporations to buy naming rights to NASA property and to use astronauts for commercials would cause more harm than good for the American public and for NASA as a public entity.
Jan 25, 2019
Scenes from the visit of the first U.S.-based journalist to cover a launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.
Oct 16, 2022
Blacksky Technology could raise up to $200 million in fresh funds by selling stock, debt or both.
Oct 14, 2022
After a two-day weather delay, NASA’s quartet of Crew-4 astronauts departed the International Space Station aboard their Freedom SpaceX Dragon capsule on Oct. 14 for a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, ending a 170-day mission to the orbital science laboratory.
Oct 14, 2022
The Pentagon is in discussions with SpaceX about the future of Starlink satellite internet connectivity in Ukraine after the company threatened to end the service if the Defense Department does not pick up the bill, while the military is also reaching out to alternative satellite communications providers.
Oct 13, 2022
A Russian Proton heavy rocket has successfully orbited the first Angolan telecommunication satellite.
Oct 13, 2022
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite—launched nearly 4 1/2 years ago to search for extrasolar planets—has suspended science operations in response to a suspected flight computer reset, a mission status update says.
Oct 13, 2022
With business partnerships sweeping across the new space and commercial space marketplace–for survival, growth or both–relative newcomer Sierra Space has opened its own corporate venture capital (VC) office to facilitate strategic tie-ups with other space upstarts.
Oct 13, 2022
NASA and SpaceX on Oct. 13 delayed the departure of the Crew-4 Dragon Freedom astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) for a second day due to unfavorable weather in the recovery zones.
Oct 13, 2022
Japan’s Space Cotan Ltd. and the Hokkaido town of Taiki have begun the expansion of Hokkaido Spaceport (HOSPO), part of its vision to create a space Silicon Valley in Japan.