Space Industry Analysis
Sep 20, 2017
Deal would put Northrop Grumman back in the human spaceflight business.
Sep 20, 2017
Only NASA’s Juno spacecraft remains in orbit around a planet beyond Mars, and its days also are numbered.
Sep 20, 2017
The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System spacecraft was lost on Aug. 31.
Sep 18, 2017
LeoLabs teams with Planet; Swiss demo U-space; fuel cell powers multicopter drone.
Sep 15, 2017
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Sep 13, 2017
Nearly out of propellant, Cassini will plow directly into Saturn’s clouds on Sept. 15.
Jun 02, 2022
Startup propulsion company Ursa Major announced June 2 that it is offering a 200,000 lb. thrust liquid oxygen and methane staged-combustion rocket engine called Arroway.
Jun 02, 2022
The Pentagon and the intelligence community are close to wrapping up a Space Strategic Review to outline the government’s policies for operations in space, including the mix of offensive and defensive systems and the extent to which they need to be classified.
Jun 01, 2022
The U.S. Navy has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Kleos Space to provide radio frequency geolocation data as part of an experiment.
Jun 01, 2022
Roscosmos State Corp. tested a turbine on May 13 which was designed to produce electric power for ion engines on Russia’s future nuclear space tug.
Jun 01, 2022
NASA has selected Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace as part of a potential $3.5 billion public private partnership for the development, training and operations of a new generation of astronaut spacesuits to support the agency’s human exploration of the Moon as well as continuing maintenance and upgrades to the International Space Station (ISS) through 2030.
Jun 01, 2022
The initial Protoflight Model small satellite for NASA’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment mission has completed functional and environmental testing at Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory.
May 31, 2022
Sierra Space and Spirit AeroSystems have signed a strategic partnership to improve production efficiency and assembly of Sierra Space’s Shooting Star cargo module. The letter of intent covers the development and production of future Shooting Star cargo modules. Sierra Space and Spirit AeroSystems will also work together to find ways to speed up the time it takes to bring Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser family of spaceplanes to market, the companies said on May 31.
May 27, 2022
Astroscale will build its Elsa-M satellite servicer for European customers and perhaps others with the goal of a late-2024 launch after a €14.8 million ($15.9 million) infusion via a European Space Agency and OneWeb alliance.