Space Industry Analysis
Jun 09, 2017
While SpaceX focuses on reuseable launchers, Arianespace looks to compete by drastically lowering the costs of its expendable ones.
Jun 09, 2017
Dennis Muilenburg on the New Midsize Airplane, 777X, Bombardier, Trump, Iran, China, Blue Origin and his “audacious” aftermarket plan.
Jun 09, 2017
Digital twins and digital threads will help head off production issues in advance.
Jun 07, 2017
For all the showmanship and hyperbole about reusable 100-passenger spaceships, there is something real behind Musk’s vision.
Jun 06, 2017
For Aerojet Rocketdyne and Orbital, their business transformations have been occasionally painful and practically existential—but also necessary.
Jun 05, 2017
Truck-maker goes eVTOL; NASA’s twisting flaps; Energy kite flies; Stratolaunch rolls out.
May 04, 2022
NASA and its crowdsource partner HeroX have announced the winners of their “Honey I Shrunk the NASA Payload, the Sequel” challenge for miniaturizing payload prototypes for Moon missions to fill scientific knowledge gaps.
May 04, 2022
Astroscale has completed rendezvous operations with its ELSA-d orbital debris removal demonstration despite losing half the servicing spacecraft’s maneuvering thrusters.
May 04, 2022
Start-up launch vehicle and satellite developer Phantom Space has emerged from stealth mode with a purchase agreement for more than 200 rocket engines from Colorado-based propulsion company Ursa Major.
May 04, 2022
MDA has made the first commercial sale of its Canadarm3 robotic arm technology to Axiom Space.
May 03, 2022
A Boeing CST-100 spacecraft was due to be transported to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex-41 on May 4 in preparation for a third attempt to reach the International Space Station for an uncrewed flight test.
May 03, 2022
In NASA’s first congressional hearing on its $26 billion 2023 budget request—an 8% percent increase—Administrator Bill Nelson expressed confidence in a continuing partnership with Russia to operate the International Space Station.
May 03, 2022
After successfully launching a 34-satellite rideshare mission from New Zealand, a Rocket Lab helicopter crew snared the returning first-stage booster mid-air for the first time, then released the rocket into the ocean for retrieval by ship.
May 02, 2022
NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research program has chosen 110 U.S. small businesses to further develop their technologies via Phase II awards.