Space Industry Analysis
Jan 20, 2016
NASA and the Energy Department designate a "planetary defense officer" to coordinate efforts to find and deal with dangerous asteroids.
Jan 20, 2016
The European Data Relay System (EDRS) is a new space and ground infrastructure that will provide near-real-time data delivery services of up to 50 terrabytes per day using laser technology.
Jan 14, 2016
Sierra Nevada Corp. will join incumbents Orbital ATK and SpaceX.
Jan 14, 2016
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is now within 240 mi. of the dwarf planet Ceres and will remain there indefinitely. Images collected at that altitude reveal similarities with Earth’s Moon and unique features that highlight the wondrous variety of our Solar System.
Jan 13, 2016
Ahead of new budget talks in late 2016, German Aerospace Center DLR and the European Space Agency are evaluating the cost of continuing support for the International Space Station beyond 2020, even as the other four space station partners pledge to fund the orbiting science lab to 2024.
Jan 13, 2016
Last year’s back-to-back station-cargo launch failures have not dimmed growing commercial interest in station research.
Nov 30, 2021
NASA did not link the debris to a mid-November Russian anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test.
Nov 30, 2021
NASA management disagrees with a conclusion reached by the agency’s inspector general (IG) in a report issued Nov. 30.
Nov 30, 2021
Airbus has already started using its latest-generation Pleiades Neo Earth-observation satellites.
Nov 30, 2021
Efforts to determine the root cause of the problem have been underway since Nov. 22.
Nov 29, 2021
NASA-led anomaly investigation found cause of vibration throughout James Webb Space Telescope.
Nov 26, 2021
Prichal provides the Russian segment of the ISS with five new parking spots for space vehicles.
Nov 25, 2021
“This latest round of funding will dramatically accelerate our ability to make on-orbit servicing routine by 2030,” Astroscale founder and CEO Nobu Okada said.
Nov 24, 2021
Twenty-three years after the launch of the first module for the International Space Station in 1998, Russia is preparing to complete the construction of its segment with the launch of its last element—the Prichal Node Module.