Space Industry Analysis
Dec 19, 2016
The first American to orbit Earth and the oldest person to ever fly in space was both a straight arrow and a self-promoter.
Dec 15, 2016
Soyuz maybe nudged out of many launches due to the increased payload capability of the Vega C.
Dec 15, 2016
What the space-launch upstart thinks went wrong in September, what the delay means for its customers and how the company has handled losses in the past. Plus, Orbital ATK’s Pegasus launch and a John Glenn remembrance.
Dec 14, 2016
Jan Woerner’s Moon village concept is looking better to NASA, and the Trump administration could move things along faster.
Dec 14, 2016
The Sept. 1 launch-pad explosion, among other problems, is putting a crimp, for now, in the big plans for Elon Musk’s "new space" company.
Dec 13, 2016
The U.S. missed several opportunities over almost 70 years to expand hypersonics into research and development of operational systems.
Mar 28, 2022
Award of a contract to build a large-scale sustainable flight demonstrator aircraft is a centerpiece of NASA’s $971.5 million budget request for aeronautics research in fiscal 2023.
Mar 28, 2022
NASA’s spending would continue to rise through the 2020s under the Biden administration’s $25.97 billion fiscal 2023 budget request submitted to Congress March 28.
Mar 28, 2022
Terran Orbital began publicly trading on the New York Stock Exchange on March 28, while announcing a $200 million backlog of contracted work and more than $40 million in 2021 revenue for the high-volume small-satellite manufacturer and Earth observation services provider.
Mar 28, 2022
The Pentagon’s fiscal 2023 budget request released, March 28, is the first time the U.S. Space Force has been able to plan spending as its own independent service, and the result is a big investment in research and development aimed at making key services in orbit more protected from emerging threats.
Mar 25, 2022
Momentus is preparing its Vigoride space tug for vibration testing in advance of its targeted June launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Mar 25, 2022
NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli and the European Space Agency’s Andreas Mogensen have been selected as the first two of four astronauts planned for launch aboard the SpaceX Crew-7 Dragon no earlier than 2023 for a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station.
Mar 25, 2022
DARPA has kicked off its orbital Moon manufacturing program, naming eight research teams for the initiative.
Mar 24, 2022
Neuraspace, a Portuguese startup looking to use artificial intelligence for space debris and satellite collision avoidance services, has landed more than $2.7 million from Armilar Venture Partners to accelerate the commercialization of its platform.