Space Industry Analysis
Dec 16, 2015
2015 could well turn up in the history books as the year humankind finally realized it could be a spacefairing species, and started reaping the benefits.
Dec 15, 2015
Space was an exciting frontier in 2015, with New Horizons’ Pluto flyby and the confirmation of water on Mars’s surface dominating the news. But commercial competition in space was also an important trend.
Dec 14, 2015
UP Aerospace takes its experience building and operating low-cost suborbital sounding rockets and applies it to a dedicated launch vehicle for tiny cubesats.
Dec 11, 2015
The trick to making international collaboration work applies for 21st-century human space exploration just as it did for railroads in the 19th—standard interfaces.
Dec 11, 2015
Which comes first, small satellites or small launch vehicles? With the growth in plans for cubesat constellations, small booster development is moving into high gear.
Dec 11, 2015
The U.S. export credit agency is back but needs a board of directors. Meanwhile, the fight continues over Russian RD-180 rocket engines.
Nov 15, 2021
Though NASA has recently delayed its estimated target of returning to the Moon with humans from 2024 to 2025, the agency remains overly optimistic in the milestones and costs it associates with the Artemis initiative, the agency’s inspector general says.
Nov 15, 2021
A Russian direct-ascent anti-satellite missile test destroyed a satellite on Nov. 15, generating thousands of pieces of space debris that threaten the International Space Station (ISS) and other assets.
Nov 15, 2021
Stakeholders including space agencies, launch providers and satellite operators launched the Net Zero Space initiative at the 4th Paris Peace Forum on Nov. 11-13, calling for a global commitment to achieving sustainable use of space for the benefit of all by 2030.
Nov 15, 2021
A week after returning to Earth from a 199-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the four U.S., European and Japanese Crew-2 Dragon astronauts expressed confidence in the orbital science lab’s future as it approaches the 23rd anniversary of its first element launch on Nov. 20.
Nov 15, 2021
The airless lunar environment will require some customized assessments by those inspired to initiate scientific inquiries or invest in the commercial ventures that NASA hopes will help it establish a sustained human presence at the Moon. This is where Houston’s Aegis Aerospace believes it could become game changing.
Nov 15, 2021
NASA has awarded seven U.S. coast-to-coast startups $90,000 each under its Entrepreneur’s Challenge program to advance the science capabilities of small satellite missions.
Nov 12, 2021
Indian private space company Digantara Research and Technologies has signed a contract with UK satellite startup Orbital Astronautics to launch a lidar-based debris-tracking payload.
Nov 12, 2021
Satellite-servicing startup Astroscale and a New Zealand government agency have signed an agreement to study the removal of three large debris objects from low-Earth orbit using a single servicer satellite.