Space Industry Analysis
Apr 27, 2017
Tianzhou is most like the Japanese HTV cargo craft used to supply the ISS. Tianzhous will burn up on reentry, unlike the similar-sized SpaceX Dragon.
Apr 26, 2017
How technical advances are enabling space-based challengers to take on terrestrial internet services.
Apr 26, 2017
How ViaSat is pushing the boundaries of satellite connectivity.
Apr 26, 2017
Economist and NASA adviser’s new book puts the billionaire space investors in a different perspective.
Apr 21, 2017
The Hubble Space Telescope continues to observe Jupiter 27 years after it was launched, and the solar-powered Juno probe is providing unprecedented detail as it orbits the planet.
Apr 19, 2017
Silicon Valley garage startup can update its imagery of every spot on Earth, every day.
Apr 25, 2022
NASA has a strategy to secure the second of two circular solar arrays that failed to fully deploy and latch following the launch of the $989 million Lucy mission.
Apr 25, 2022
A prolonged, privately financed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) ended on April 25 with the return of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule chartered by Houston-based Axiom Space.
Apr 25, 2022
The four-member Axiom-1 private astronaut mission departed the International Space Station on April 24, ending the first U.S.-backed commercial flight to the orbital outpost and clearing the docking port for the arrival of the next ISS resident crew later this week.
Apr 22, 2022
Dr. Bernard A. Harris, a retired NASA astronaut and flight surgeon and the first African-American to conduct a spacewalk, has been inducted into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame.
Apr 22, 2022
Just under two years after joining Aerojet Rocketdyne as chief operating officer (COO), Amy Gowder is leaving the embattled rocket and propulsion supplier “to accept another business opportunity.”
Apr 21, 2022
Planet Labs has unveiled its next constellation of 32 Earth observation satellites, the Pelican fleet, which will provide images with up to 30 cm of resolution and improved revisit rates.
Apr 21, 2022
Weather concerns off the Florida coast have prompted new delays in the planned return to Earth of Axiom-1 from the International Space Station and the follow-on launch of NASA’s Crew-4 SpaceX Dragon Freedom to the ISS, NASA and Axiom Space announced late April 20.
Apr 21, 2022
NASA selected six U.S. satellite communications providers on April 20 to develop and demonstrate near-Earth space communication services to support future agency missions as part of the Communications Services Project.