Space Industry Analysis
Feb 14, 2017
ESA has tentatively set a date for launching its first attempt at a spacecraft that can help gather space debris.
Feb 10, 2017
In this week’s Washington Outlook: the president meets with airline executives, generals describe a budget crisis without admitting failure, the battle for heavy-launch business and an argument for commercialized space-traffic control.
Feb 10, 2017
DARPA's plan to partner with Space Systems/Loral for repair in space and leave a commercial capability in place under challenge.
Feb 09, 2017
In this week’s roundup, Malaysia’s coast guard will own UAVs, Belgium joins U.S. space situational awareness efforts, U.S. Navy to buy one fewer MQ-4 Triton and a South Korean Foreign Military Sale for Raytheon missiles.
Feb 08, 2017
Data from the Geostationary Carbon Cycle Observatory also is expected to help researchers aid governments in meeting carbon-reduction goals as well as farmers.
Feb 08, 2017
JAXA’s mission to de-orbit space debris hits a hurdle when a 700-m cable fails to deploy.
Apr 05, 2022
Lockheed Martin plans to launch two self-funded satellites by 2023 that could be used in military exercises that year to demonstrate parts of the military’s vision for joint all-domain operations.
Apr 04, 2022
The test was scrubbed at 5 p.m. EDT while the Mission Management Team and Launch Control Team assessed their options
Apr 04, 2022
Employment in the core U.S. space industry workforce is at a 10-year high, climbing past 2011’s last peak of 149,818 to reach 151,797, according to preliminary 2021 U.S. data cited by the Space Foundation on April 4.
Apr 04, 2022
Lockheed Martin on April 4 released online an open-source interface standard for on-orbit satellite docking.
Apr 04, 2022
Maritime Launch Services, a six-year-old startup looking to operate Canada’s first commercial spaceport and offer low Earth orbit launch services via the Ukrainian Cyclone-4M system, has taken another step toward becoming a publicly traded company in Canada after a reverse merger with an investment group.
Apr 04, 2022
Almost a year after its ruggedized HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 (SBC-2) was installed on the International Space Station (ISS), Hewlett Packard Enterprise says its advanced artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled processor system has completed 24 research experiments and accelerated data analysis time from months to minutes.
Apr 04, 2022
Pioneer Aerospace, an experienced manufacturer of parachutes and aerodynamic deceleration systems for NASA space missions, has been acquired by Aviation Safety Resources, a company developing aircraft recovery parachute systems for the advanced air mobility market.
Apr 04, 2022
The UK Ministry of Defense has ordered the first satellite to support the development of its Minerva constellation, the communications backbone for a family of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites.