Space Industry Analysis
Oct 08, 2015
Scientists, engineers and human spaceflight visionaries will gather in Jerusalem on Oct. 12 to ponder where to go in the Solar System after the International Space Station, how to get there and who will make the trip.
Oct 07, 2015
Their use marks a major expansion in the U.S. Air Force’s ability to spy on other satellites.
Oct 07, 2015
California, in particular, is sure to feel a strong impact from a new regulation lowering the permissible level of ozone ppb. Satellites can help.
Oct 07, 2015
An international court ordered the state-owned satellite company to pay damages of $672 million to Devas Multimedia.
Oct 07, 2015
Once a monopoly, ULA is now fighting for engines to compete against upstart SpaceX.
Oct 02, 2015
Stunning views of Charon in the latest New Horizons imagery from its July 14 flyby of Pluto suggests the large moon—half the size of Pluto—may have been fractured as an internal ocean of water ice froze early in the history of the Solar System.
Oct 19, 2021
Rocket Lab will attempt a controlled ocean splashdown and recovery of the Electron small satellite launcher earmarked for flight next month, the company said on Oct. 19.
Oct 19, 2021
Boeing is nearing the end of a winding technical analysis of a valve problem that scotched plans for an uncrewed orbital flight test of its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in August.
Oct 19, 2021
NASA has named an astronaut flight training hangar in honor of the late John Young, who launched on six space missions and served as commander of the Apollo 16 Moon landing and the first space shuttle mission.
Oct 19, 2021
NASA has selected the small Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) from 18 space telescope proposals for further development and launch in 2025 to investigate the origin of chemical elements in the Milky Way.
Oct 18, 2021
The Lucy spacecraft, which launched on Oct. 16 on a mission to explore seven Jupiter Trojan asteroids, may have an issue with one of its 24-ft.-dia. solar arrays, the agency said on Oct. 17.
Oct 17, 2021
Russian film actress Yulia Peresild and producer/director Klim Shipenko descended safely to Earth early Oct. 17 on the steppes of central Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft with International Space Station (ISS) cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy.
Oct 16, 2021
A NASA spacecraft has begun a 12-year, 4 billion-mi. mission to explore an unusual population of asteroids that became locked in Jupiter’s orbit during the early days of the Solar System’s formation.
Oct 15, 2021
Axiom Space, which is working with NASA to develop a commercial successor to the International Space Station, announced this week the completion of three joint design reviews for the project.