Space Industry Analysis

Dec 12, 2018
Stuck steering fins prompt booster to abort ground landing attempt.
Dec 10, 2018
U.S. Air Force Col. Robert Bongiovi discusses the Air Force’s vision for future launch services, the Delta IV and the National Security Space Launch program.
Dec 07, 2018
For the first time, our judges declared a space photo as Best of the Best. Growing competition and increasing launches are helping this dynamic category. See the full winners across the commercial aviation, defense, space and general aviation categories.
Dec 07, 2018
Our editors brought their expertise to bear on photographs that they found most compelling in their respective fields this year.
Dec 07, 2018
InSight is designed to study what exists from about 1 mi. beneath the planet’s surface to its metal core, some 1,000 mi. below.
Dec 04, 2018
Terrain relative navigation is opening a wider window for Mars exploration.
Sep 30, 2022
The U.S. Department of Defense has released a request for proposals for “Proliferated Low Earth Orbit Satellite-Based Services.”
Sep 30, 2022
Delays have slowed the gathering of experience that ArianeGroup needs for its proposed family of reusable launchers.
Sep 29, 2022
Three Russian cosmonauts descended safely to Earth aboard their Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft early Sept. 29, continuing an International Space Station (ISS) crew exchange process that has been extended due to Hurricane Ian’s threat to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Sep 28, 2022
The National Reconnaissance Office on Sept. 28 increased its work with commercial space companies, awarding six study contracts for commercial radio frequency remote sensing.
Sep 28, 2022
Over the past two weeks, SpaceX has started selling two “high performance” user terminals.
Sep 27, 2022
NASA is looking to mid-November as the most likely opportunity for its next attempt at launching the Artemis I test flight around the Moon, though it has not completely ruled out a late-October opportunity, agency officials said Sept. 27.
Sep 27, 2022
The UK Space Agency has awarded £4 million ($4.3 million) to two companies—ClearSpace and Astroscale—to design spacecraft capable of removing space debris, such as defunct satellites.
Sep 27, 2022
NASA's probe slammed into a targeted asteroid on Sept. 26 to demonstrate a kinetic impact strategy as a potential means of shielding the Earth from a disastrous collision in future.