Space Industry Analysis
Sep 30, 2015
Protecting planets in the search for life, and actually searching for it with humans, probably won’t mix.
Sep 30, 2015
NASA has a hard sell at the International Astronautical Congress with its focus on Mars.
Sep 30, 2015
The Mars ascent vehicle (MAV) will be very different from the ascent stage of the Apollo Lunar Module, the only craft ever to carry humans off the surface of another planetary body.
Sep 30, 2015
Given the success of the five-nation ISS partnership, the new director-general of the European Space Agency is hopeful any successor to the orbiting outpost will be founded on international cooperation. To this end, he has proposed a free-flying science lab that would continue ISS micro-gravity research in low Earth orbit while advancing technologies for orbital-debris mitigation. He has also floated a so-called “Moon Village” mission on the dark side of the lunar surface, offering the potential to further research and technology development in a low-gravity environment using humans, robots, or both.
Sep 30, 2015
Pentagon postures for a reality where satellites are threatened or even attacked.
Sep 29, 2015
Finding adds urgency to space agency’s quest to find life on other planets.
Oct 15, 2021
The partnership enables the two entities to partner on research and development opportunities, promoting U.S. space industry growth.
Oct 15, 2021
The venture capital and private equity firehose fueling space startups continues unabated.
Oct 14, 2021
NASA’s Human Landing System strategy, a key element of the agency’s effort to establish a sustained human presence at the Moon and go on to Mars, may appear embattled.
Oct 14, 2021
Startup Space Perspective announced a $40 million venture capital fund raising on Oct. 14, claiming the largest round yet for a space tourism balloon company and coming months after a successful demonstration.
Oct 14, 2021
Satellite broadband provider OneWeb has successfully placed more than half of its constellation into low Earth orbit following the 11th launch of its campaign from Vostochny spaceport in Russia’s Far East at 5:40 a.m. EDT Oct. 14.
Oct 14, 2021
The trio will spend six months living on the Tianhe core module, which will be the longest-ever duration in space for a Chinese crew.
Oct 13, 2021
Advanced versions of NASA’s Space Launch System, the world’s most power rocket, could be used in the long term to carry out a human Mars flyby and dispatch an interstellar probe to study the realm beyond the Solar System, experts say.
Oct 12, 2021
The customer slated to launch on the first flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket now expects to fly in mid-2022.