Space Industry Analysis

Dec 23, 2016
Aerospace and defense was shaken up in 2016, with the UK opting out of the EU and a new U.S. president elected—and then critiquing via Twitter. Despite that, the coming year promises to be an active one in the industry.
Dec 23, 2016
Congress prioritizes readiness, troop increases over procurement in 2017.
Dec 22, 2016
The Spaceflight sector was hopping this year including China's continuing advances. New probes on Mars and Jupiter will keep U.S. and European scientists busy into the coming year and beyond.
Dec 22, 2016
Aerospace & Defense 2017 is the latest version of our annual predictor of trends to watch across all the fields we cover. With that issue in the bag, we talk with our top editors about what to look for in 2017.
Dec 22, 2016
Pentagon faces decisions on critical and complex military space systems as the commercial satellite communications market continues to evolve.
Dec 21, 2016
Few things made by man release so much power so quickly as a rocket carrying its payload into space. The results inspire awe in people who witness these launches.
Mar 30, 2022
Russia’s Soyuz MS-19 descended under parachute to a safe landing in remote Kazakhstan after departing the International Space Station early March 30 with two cosmonauts and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, whose stay set a new record of 355 days for the longest U.S. human spaceflight.
Mar 30, 2022
Eyeing fast-growing demand for small satellite constellations from both defense and commercial customers, Boeing subsidiary Millennium Space Systems is opening a new “high-throughput” small satellite production facility.
Mar 29, 2022
NASA is eager to kick off the next major milestone in preparation for the first launch of the Space Launch System and Orion crew capsule—its Wet Dress Rehearsal.
Mar 29, 2022
Dave King, who took over as chief executive of Dynetics in 2015 to shepherd the company’s breakout and ultimately successful sale to Leidos in 2020, is stepping aside.
Mar 29, 2022
Singapore has become the 18th country and first in Southeast Asia to join the Artemis Accords, multinational commitments aimed at encouraging a peaceful, sustainable and beneficial use of space and its exploration.
Mar 29, 2022
The EPFL Space Center, an outgrowth of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, has been selected as the lead organization to stand up a Space Sustainability Rating index and it intends to issue its first certifications imminently.
Mar 29, 2022
Impulse Space Propulsion, a new in-orbit transfer services company founded by Tom Mueller, a SpaceX co-founder, on March 29 announced a $20 million investment in a seed round led by Founders Fund, the San Francisco-based venture capital firm established by famous technology investor Peter Thiel.
Mar 29, 2022
Lockheed Martin is set to begin using advanced filament material from polymer 3D printing specialist Stratasys for additional aerospace parts, including flight structures for space vehicles