Space Industry Analysis
May 06, 2016
A guide to the aircraft and spacecraft featured on the cover of our 100th anniversary issue and a look at the artist, Ted Williams.
May 05, 2016
The key to putting humans on Mars, developing supersonic and hypersonic commercial transports and introducing space tourism? Produce smarter humans. Learn how.
May 05, 2016
The head of Darpa’s Tactical Technology Office says the world is on the verge of leaps in supersonic travel, vertical takeoff and landing systems, flight proficiency and safety, space launch and awareness of space.
May 04, 2016
Five months before Apollo 11 astronauts set foot on the Moon, NASA was already pursuing some grandiose plans for the post-Apollo era.
May 04, 2016
Aviation Week’s foray into the new arena of digital imaging led to two scoops of high-level intrigue and bargaining with the U.S. military.
May 04, 2016
Richard Branson has been a pioneer on many fronts, but he is especially intense when it comes to space exploration and the promise it holds for a better Earth.
Jan 18, 2022
Northrop Grumman has finalized a contract with Paragon Space Development worth more than $100 million to provide the life support system for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost program, aimed for lunar orbit as the first crew module of NASA’s Lunar Gateway.
Jan 18, 2022
Roscosmos plans to retire its heavy-lift workhorse Proton launch vehicle this year.
Jan 18, 2022
The Air Force Research Laboratory on Jan. 14 awarded SpaceX a $102 million contract for its Rocket Cargo program, an effort studying the feasibility of moving military materiel through space.
Jan 18, 2022
A surprise November 2021 Russian anti-satellite test has nearly doubled the risk of a penetrating collision between test debris and the International Space Station, NASA ISS Director Robyn Gatens says.
Jan 18, 2022
The European Space Agency is working toward the inaugural flight of the Ariane 6 medium-to-heavy launcher, but a precise date–in 2022 or later–cannot be set, Director General Josef Aschbacher says.
Jan 18, 2022
HeroX and DrivenData have joined with NASA to launch a “NASAAir-athon” crowdsourcing competition to establish a satellite data source to improve and make more publicly accessible urban air quality estimates.
Jan 18, 2022
NASA is working with crowdsourcing platform HeroX to award prizes for recycling concepts that could help diminish the trash buildup associated with early-stage human expeditions to Mars.
Jan 14, 2022
As its name suggests, Lunar Resources, Inc. is all about pioneering off-Earth manufacturing through lunar resource extraction and in-situ utilization.