Space Industry Analysis
Jan 11, 2019
Greater demands on engine performance have ranked high among the challenges for China’s Chang’e 4 lunar mission.
Jan 11, 2019
After closing out 2018 with a company record 21 launches, SpaceX aims to keep the pace, begin flying astronauts and test a prototype Mars spaceship
Jan 11, 2019
Thirty-four new pieces of debris were recently added to the growing junk heap in Earth orbit.
Jan 10, 2019
Compared with a coronagraph, a starshade has a wider field of view and can allow the telescope to see planets closer to their star.
Jan 10, 2019
A new year’s prediction: 2019 will see “big money” finally buy in on aerospace—or decide to leave it for another generation. The chances are 50-50.
Jan 02, 2019
As the Ariane 6 program faces an unfavorable market, Europe’s institutional players have yet to put their money where their mouths are.
Oct 11, 2022
NASA has declared its Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission a major success in its demonstration of a “kinetic impact” strategy that could be used to change the trajectory of a large asteroid on a course to impact the Earth.
Oct 11, 2022
New standardized mechanical interfaces for grappling and connecting spacecraft are critical to enabling growth of the in-space servicing, assembly and manufacturing industries, a panel of industry players says.
Oct 11, 2022
Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl Boeing 747-400 launch aircraft has arrived in the UK, ready to play its part in the country’s first orbital launch.
Oct 10, 2022
At the request of its customer, United Launch Alliance is delaying the debut flight of its Vulcan-Centaur booster to the first quarter of 2023, though CEO Tory Bruno acknowledges that even if Astrobotic’s lunar lander was ready, it would be difficult to make the previously targeted December launch date due to delays with Vulcan’s BE-4 core stage engines.
Oct 10, 2022
Mission controllers have regained attitude control of the NASA-funded Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment small satellite.
Oct 07, 2022
DARPA wants to expand the sustained use of the very low earth orbit (VLEO) region for future spacecraft.
Oct 06, 2022
Teams from ArianeGroup, the European Space Agency and Germany’s space agency, DLR, are testing the Ariane 6 rocket’s upper stage and Vinci engine.
Oct 06, 2022
NASA’s SpaceX-contracted Endurance Crew-5 Dragon capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station on Oct. 6, delivering four astronauts and cosmonauts as part of a crew exchange.