Space Industry Analysis
Jul 18, 2018
Aviation Week Network editors discuss highlights and lowlights at the Farnborough Airshow, including Britain’s future fighter vision: is it a storm in a teacup, or will it really happen?
Jul 18, 2018
White House says it wants an expert in building public-private partnerships to serve with Bridenstine at NASA.
Jul 17, 2018
M&A in the A&D sector is surging and may be on its way to new levels across the board. Many advisors are wondering who is next?
Jul 13, 2018
A liftoff thrust approaching 6,000 metric tons and mass exceeding 4,000 metric tons would evidently apply to the largest version, which would have four boosters.
Jul 13, 2018
Reusable spaceplane under development by Boeing aims to launch 3,000 lb. to low Earth orbit for $5 million.
Jul 12, 2018
The hot subject at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Propulsion & Energy conference was electrification—of aircraft, spacecraft and even the surface of the Moon.
Aug 26, 2022
Russia has completed an upgrade of the world’s most powerful liquid rocket engine, the RD-171.
Aug 26, 2022
T-Mobile has announced an agreement to use SpaceX’s Starlink constellation of low-Earth-orbit communications satellites for text message coverage across the continental U.S., Hawaii, parts of Alaska, Puerto Rico and U.S. territorial waters—remote regions outside the signal of T-Mobile’s terrestrial network.
Aug 26, 2022
HawkEye 360 and the U.S. Army have signed a new, two-year agreement to develop and demonstrate new overhead radio frequency sensing capabilities that could be used to cue military surveillance assets.
Aug 26, 2022
The change is to better accommodate the timing of upcoming operations aboard the ISS.
Aug 25, 2022
NASA on Aug. 25 was on track to begin the two-day launch countdown for its first Space Launch System rocket, leading to a launch attempt at 8:33 a.m. EDT on Aug. 29 from Kennedy Space Center.
Aug 25, 2022
Boeing is aiming to launch its third CST-100 Starliner spacecraft—this time with a pair of NASA astronauts aboard—in about six months, managers told reporters on Aug. 25.
Aug 24, 2022
Amid growing orbital threats from China and Russia, U.S. Space Command is calling on industry for innovative solutions to form a global space domain awareness sensor network that will be interoperable with systems used by international allies.
Aug 24, 2022
NASA has chosen three companies to continue the development and environmental testing of prototype vertical solar arrays that could be positioned at the Moon’s south pole to provide electrical power for a range of future human and robotic operations.