Space Industry Analysis
Apr 01, 2016
Here are the main-stage and upper-stage engines being developed by Aerojet Rocketdyne, Blue Origin, Orbital ATK, SpaceX and XCOR Aerospace.
Apr 01, 2016
Work, Dunford discuss improved intelligence analysis; Senate to ask TSA administrator about airport security; elements of NASA’s SLS face delays and cost growth.
Mar 31, 2016
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Mar 30, 2016
The modern day space race for new U.S. engines is taking place at both ends of the rocket.
Mar 30, 2016
Engines in contention to replace Russia’s RD-180 on U.S. launches cover a lot of technology, from segmented solid propellant to the methane-burning Blue Origin BE-4.
Mar 30, 2016
The Cold War era bigger-equals-better approach to space hardware is drawing to a close, and the trend extends into the power of rocket engines.
Jan 03, 2022
The new Persei booster for Russia’s Angara 5A heavy rocket failed to deliver a dummy payload to its final geostationary orbit.
Dec 30, 2021
The reconfiguration of the James Webb Space Telescope continued on Dec. 30 with the removal of covers that protected the observatory’s delicate sunshield for launch, setting the stage for the deployment of a five-layer, tennis court-sized structure needed to passively cool the telescope for its science program.
Dec 25, 2021
“There’s 344 things that now have to work perfectly,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a post-launch interview.
Dec 24, 2021
NASA and Roscosmos continue to pursue an astronaut/cosmonaut crew exchange agreement for Soyuz and NASA Commercial Crew launches to the International Space Station.
Dec 23, 2021
A new Inmarsat I-6 F1 satellite was successfully put into orbit by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on Dec 23.
Dec 23, 2021
An Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket carrying the flagship James Webb Space Telescope was rolled out to launchpad ELA-3 at Guiana Space Center in French Guiana on Dec. 23 in preparation for liftoff at 7:20 a.m. EST on Dec. 25.
Dec 23, 2021
A Russian Progress propulsion module and instrument compartment that delivered the Prichal docking module to the International Space Station’s Russian-segment Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module departed the seven-person orbital science laboratory late Dec. 22 for a destructive atmospheric re-entry over the south Pacific Ocean.
Dec 22, 2021
SpaceX’s 24th NASA-contracted Dragon resupply capsule autonomously rendezvoused with and docked to the International Space Station’s (ISS) U.S. segment early Dec. 22.