Space Industry Analysis
Apr 27, 2016
There’s a renaissance in spaceflight innovation, but a leap is needed for it to reach the financial tipping point and close the business case for the off-planet economy.
Apr 25, 2016
California Polytechnic—and a Florida high school—are working together to test a cubesat specifically designed as part of an experiment to wirelessly transmit payload data from launch to deployment.
Apr 25, 2016
NASA is beginning UAS testing that deliberately plans close encounters with “intruder” aircraft.
Apr 22, 2016
Three years before the U.S. flew its first space shuttle mission, Aviation Week revealed that the Soviet Union was developing its own reusable spaceplane.
Apr 20, 2016
NASA is encouraging commercial ventures to take control of low Earth orbit research and even profitmaking, sparking a space commercialization boomlet.
Apr 20, 2016
Cash-strapped South and Central American nations gain valuable insight into establishing space opportunities on their home turf.
Jan 11, 2022
NASA will strive for a closer relationship between its climate science activities and its other research and technology pursuits—whether they be human space exploration or aeronautics—with this week’s appointment of a new combination chief scientist and senior climate advisor, Administrator Bill Nelson told a Jan. 11 news briefing.
Jan 11, 2022
Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, will be the base for several micro-launchers, which will help the European industry progress in reusability, according to Philippe Baptiste, chairman and CEO of French space agency CNES.
Jan 11, 2022
Start-up space services provider Astroscale has hired another startup, Orbit Fab, to refuel its planned fleet of orbital space tugs.
Jan 10, 2022
HawkEye 360, a commercial provider of space-based radio frequency data and analytics, has added Leidos to its Series D venture capital round.
Jan 10, 2022
Katherine Calvin has been named NASA’s chief scientist and senior climate advisor, Administrator Bill Nelson has announced.
Jan 10, 2022
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has encountered another “small” obstacle in its campaign to collect and cache samples of rocky materials from the floor of the red planet.
Jan 10, 2022
Shares in Momentus have fallen 60% since the space-tug startup went public in August 2021.
Jan 08, 2022
Two weeks after the JWST was launched into orbit, the final segment of its 21-ft.-dia. primary mirror—the largest mirror ever flown on a space observatory—was rotated into position, completing NASA’s risky and most technically complicated series of in-space deployments.