Space Industry Analysis

Feb 06, 2018
The first privately funded heavy-lift rocket ushers in a new way of doing business.
Feb 05, 2018
This year’s winners will be recognized March 1 at a black-tie gala in Washington, when four Grand Laureates also will be awarded.
Feb 01, 2018
Russia EW work bears fruit, Germany sets up heavy-lift helo competition, SSL wins USAF space study work, Canada buys naval self-defense system support package.
Jan 31, 2018
In January 1958, after initial failures with Vanguard and U.S.S.R. success with Sputnik, the U.S. made it into orbit.
Jan 30, 2018
Preliminary fiscal 2019 spending plan also aims to end direct funding of space station in 2025.
Jan 29, 2018
What do aerospace and defense companies need to think of now as artificial intelligence spreads across the industry in earnest?
Jul 12, 2022
Aerospace company Thales Group, mobile phone chip maker Qualcomm Technologies and telecommunications company Ericsson plan to test and validate low Earth orbit satellite-based 5G network technologies for mobile phones.
Jul 12, 2022
President Biden unveiled the first image marking the start of the James Webb Space Telescope’s long-anticipated initial science campaign on July 11 that featured a stirring, full-color view of the now-vast universe from its earliest and not previously witnessed era.
Jul 11, 2022
The U.S. Space Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Space Systems a $22.1 million contract for the Rapid On-orbit Space Technology Evaluation Ring (Rooster), a ridesharing spacecraft that will be used to demonstrate on-orbit refueling technology and other prototypes.
Jul 08, 2022
Carnegie Mellon University has launched an initiative to study a distributed computing architecture for nanosatellites.
Jul 07, 2022
The Defense Innovation Unit’s (DIU) Hybrid Space Architecture program has issued several contracts to companies to develop and demonstrate a space-based network architecture for communications across commercial and government satellites in multiple orbits.
Jul 07, 2022
Stellar Solutions, a global aerospace and systems engineering services firm, has unveiled Stellar Ventures, a woman-led venture capital firm investing in the next generation of space entrepreneurs, the company said July 7.
Jul 07, 2022
NASA’s small Capstone mission satellite successfully carried out a delayed midday trajectory correction maneuver on July 7.
Jul 07, 2022
The European Space Agency (ESA), its commercial partners and potential customers are eagerly awaiting the inaugural launch of the Vega-C rocket.