Space Industry Analysis
Jun 12, 2018
Meteorologists expect a breakthrough in weather forecast, thanks to a first-of-its-kind space-borne Lidar that will measure wind at 24 different altitudes.
Jun 08, 2018
New detail emerges about SpaceX’s "giant party balloon" upper-stage recovery studies.
Jun 08, 2018
Forty-two years after Viking landers looked for organics, Curiosity found them, setting the stage for a focused search for signs of life.
Jun 08, 2018
Scientists still stumped by cause of gas release and why it vanishes exponentially faster than models predict.
Jun 06, 2018
For Blue Origin, the first step is to cut launch costs with reusable rockets and capsules.
Jun 04, 2018
Airline aims suborbital; behavior-detecting drones; Airbus reinforces urban air; Siemens electrifies aviation; Echodyne tracks drones.
Aug 15, 2022
Technicians have installed and tested the flight termination system on the Space Launch System rocket, kicking off a 25-day clock for launch attempts for the Artemis I flight test.
Aug 12, 2022
Capella Space’s third generation of synthetic aperture radar satellites, named Acadia, will feature inter-satellite laser communications systems, faster downlinks and higher resolution images.
Aug 12, 2022
The transition occurred Aug. 11 during a ceremony at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Aug 11, 2022
NASA has resolved an issue with the U.S. Space Force’s Eastern Range that will expand launch opportunities for the first Space Launch System rocket, currently targeted to lift off at 8:33 a.m. EDT on Aug. 29 on the Artemis I flight test.
Aug 11, 2022
Blue Canyon Technologies has won a contract to build 18 small passive microwave sounder satellites for weather data company The Tomorrow Companies.
Aug 11, 2022
DARPA has selected 11 teams for phase one of the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node program.
Aug 11, 2022
The Federal Communications Commission is revoking plans to award SpaceX up to $886 million over 10 years to subsidize broadband internet service to rural households in the U.S. via the Starlink satellite network.
Aug 10, 2022
At the close of NASA’s upcoming Artemis I test flight, an uncrewed Orion capsule will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere faster and hotter than any previous human spacecraft, validating the heat shield’s ability to protect astronauts returning from the Moon and eventually Mars.