Space Industry Analysis
Apr 05, 2017
No matter how vital space power becomes to the U.S., if it is relegated to a supporting role inside the Air Force, or any other service or agency, it will always receive short shrift.
Apr 04, 2017
For SpaceX, 100-flight reuse Falcon 9s, providing a hundredfold in savings, is on the company’s active agenda.
Apr 04, 2017
Aviation Week has won top honors in the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards, the business-to-business media equivalent of the Pulitzer Prizes.
Mar 31, 2017
How the F-15 proposal differs from failed attempts to retire aircraft; another request for regulations; a burning disagreement, and F-35 JPO chief retiring.
Mar 30, 2017
Space is the only domain where platforms cannot be routinely serviced, repaired and upgraded to keep them operating and up to date with technology advances. Two planned demos, one by NASA and one by DARPA, could change that.
Mar 29, 2017
The $3.2 billion U.S./European Cassini probe is scheduled to drop into Saturn’s cloudy atmosphere on Sept. 15, bringing down the curtain on a 13-year tour of a planetary system with so many moving parts it almost rivals the Solar System in complexity.
Apr 18, 2022
NASA, SpaceX and Axiom Space have delayed the undocking of Axiom-1, the first U.S. private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, from April 19 to April 20 at the earliest.
Apr 18, 2022
Space manufacturing and services provider Redwire, which recently became a publicly traded company, could raise up to $80 million in new funds via additional stock issuance.
Apr 18, 2022
The three Chinese astronauts on the Shenzhou-13 mission have returned to Earth after 183 days in orbit, setting a Chinese spaceflight record.
Apr 18, 2022
NASA plans to suspend additional tanking tests of the Space Launch System and return the Moon rocket to Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building for repairs, the space agency said.
Apr 15, 2022
Space tug startup TransAstra and small satellite startup ReOrbit have signed multiple contracts to study joint development projects.
Apr 15, 2022
Technicians on April 15 were preparing to access the tail service mast unit of the Space Launch System mobile launcher in an effort to stem a liquid hydrogen leak that prompted the launch team to scrub a tanking test of the Moon-class rocket on April 14.
Apr 15, 2022
As their nearly six-month mission to the International Space Station draws to a close, four NASA SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts praised their experience with Axiom-1, the first U.S. all-private astronaut mission to the ISS, and predicted there will be more missions to come.
Apr 14, 2022
Capella Space has unveiled new software features that automate analysis of images captured by its synthetic aperture radar satellite constellation.