Space Industry Analysis
Mar 02, 2016
Budget uncertainties—driven by political uncertainties—are affecting NASA’s decision on whether to add a small habitat to a cislunar mission.
Feb 29, 2016
Leap days are pretty rare, of course, coming only once every four years. But when you publish a weekly magazine that’s dated on Mondays, Leap Day issues happen much less often.
Feb 29, 2016
Able to fit on a fingertip, a microchip developed by Singapore’s NTU could revolutionize all-weather radar imaging for small unmanned aircraft and satellites.
Feb 26, 2016
Lawmakers draw battle lines on defense budget; FAA creates rulemaking committee for micro UAVs; Foreign Military Sales process remains slow; Culberson makes another attempt to allow the NASA administrator to serve 10 years.
Feb 26, 2016
The order backlog for Airbus Group has never been so large. Program execution is now key.
Feb 24, 2016
The French-led project helps to address the increasing demand for small-satellite launch, and the dearth of options for meeting it.
Dec 13, 2021
NASA’s small satellite Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) could provide a welcome, low-cost 2021 leap ahead in the agency’s efforts to return human explorers to the Moon.
Dec 13, 2021
Roscosmos Space Corp. launched a Proton-M heavy rocket with two Russian communication satellites from Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan at 7:07 a.m. on Dec. 13.
Dec 13, 2021
The six-seater New Shepard—flying with a full cabin for the first time—lifted off from Blue Origin’s spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, at 9 a.m. local time.
Dec 13, 2021
An additional friction stir welding facility in Thales Alenia Space’s Turin factory is helping meet increased demand from space station operators for pressurized modules.
Dec 10, 2021
The NASA Johnson Space Center’s (JSC) Rocket Park was named Dec.10 in honor of George W.S. Abbey, an early space agency stalwart who served as the center’s director from 1996 to 2001.
Dec 10, 2021
With efforts to troubleshoot an issue with a Space Launch System main engine controller ongoing, NASA is now targeting the rocket’s rollout to Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B for mid-January—about two weeks later than previously planned—for a key prelaunch fueling test.
Dec 09, 2021
Tomorrow.io—the former ClimaCell weather services company that rebranded and announced a plan to launch and operate a constellation of relatively small satellites by 2022—will go public via a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company.
Dec 09, 2021
A new tool for astrophysicists to probe polarized X-ray light radiating from some of the highest energy objects in the universe is in orbit following an early morning launch by SpaceX from Kennedy Space Center.