Space Industry Analysis
Jan 04, 2018
A maturity gate review confirmed that the industrial process of the Ariane 6 is mature enough to start construction of the first launcher.
Jan 04, 2018
At the Aviation Week Network, we’re already charging into 2018. But over the recent holiday break, I had time to reflect on some of my favorite memories from last year. Here are five of them.
Jan 03, 2018
NASA still needs to certify SpaceX Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket for telescope’s planned March liftoff on high-priority science mission.
Jan 03, 2018
Spacecraft, sensors, systems and better prediction capability form focus for Aerospace Corp.’s drive to mitigate danger from collisions with orbiting objects.
Jan 02, 2018
Private industry teams up with the military to launch more than 700 high-resolution imaging satellites by 2022.
Dec 22, 2017
In addition to building and refurbishing New Glenn reusable rockets, the new plant also will house launch and mission control.
Jul 05, 2022
Northrop Grumman has selected Airbus US Space & Defense as its satellite bus supplier for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL) prototype constellation.
Jul 05, 2022
Norway’s Kongsberg is to purchase a majority holding in Lithuanian small satellite integrator and bus manufacturer NanoAvionics.
Jul 04, 2022
NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (Capstone) small satellite successfully separated from its orbital Photon propulsion stage early July 4, beginning a pioneering journey to near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the Moon.
Jul 01, 2022
NASA has completed construction of a record-tying large primary mirror for a telescope to be carried aloft by a high-altitude balloon.
Jun 30, 2022
OneWeb, in partnership with the European Space Agency and UK Space Agency, says it demonstrated a 5G link between low Earth orbit satellites, a geostationary satellite and a mobile ground terminal on June 28.
Jun 30, 2022
Startup launch company Relativity Space has signed a multiyear, multiflight launch services agreement with OneWeb to deliver its next-generation broadband satellites into orbit beginning in 2025.
Jun 30, 2022
After nearly two years in the orbit of Mars, China’s Tianwen-1 has completed imagery mapping of the red planet.
Jun 29, 2022
Tracy Caldwell Dyson is likely to be the third U.S. astronaut to fly aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station under a new crew seat exchange agreement to be signed by NASA and Roscosmos.