Space Industry Analysis
Aug 31, 2015
"Craters should be bowl shaped, but this one had terraces," said Ali Bramson, University of Arizona graduate student researcher.
Aug 31, 2015
The country’s efforts to develop an indigenous sounding rocket and nanosat launch capability advance, as Nammo plans a suborbital test flight of a new hybrid rocket motor.
Aug 31, 2015
As satellites and their antennas get bigger, they become harder to launch. Spacecraft-maker Space Systems/Loral thinks on-orbit self-assembly, reconfiguration and repair using an onboard robotic arm could make satellites more powerful and more flexible over their lifetimes.
Aug 31, 2015
Prize challenge seeks drag-reducing ideas; precision location for NASA Langley UAS testing; carnivorous plant inspires morphing flap design; rocket-propelled fireballs will incinerate chem/bio agents; bend it, stretch it, wear it—Pentagon backs flexible electronics
Aug 28, 2015
This week's aerospace and defense stories you don't want to miss, including a vertical-take-off-and-landing aircraft crowdfunding campaign and success for Europe's Neuron demonstrator flight trials.
Aug 26, 2015
ESA says the satellite's initial images from its first scan of Earth are exceeding expectations.
Sep 29, 2021
A half-dozen NASA Mars rovers, landers and orbiters will cease or in some cases curtail their transmission and reception of data with Earth as the Solar System’s two most hospitable planets experience a two-week, once-every-two-year solar conjunction beginning Oct. 2.
Sep 28, 2021
Three International Space Station crewmembers inaugurated spacecraft dockings at the orbital lab’s new Russian segment Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module on Sept. 28 as they separated from the 11-year-old Rassvet Mini Research Module-1 in their Soyuz MS-18 to redock at Nauka.
Sep 27, 2021
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set out a long-term strategy for the UK to become a leading nation in space.
Sep 27, 2021
The U.S. Space Force is investing $24.35 million in Rocket Lab’s new medium-lift Neutron booster, with emphasis on the rocket’s upper stage for possible use in the National Security Space Launch program.
Sep 27, 2021
Blue Origin plans to fly its second group of passengers to suborbital space on Oct. 12.
Sep 27, 2021
Privately owned Terran Orbital plans to invest $300 million to build a factory at Kennedy Space Center capable of producing 1,000 small satellites per year.
Sep 27, 2021
Landsat 9, the latest satellite in a long-running Earth observation collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Department of Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey, was successfully launched on Sept. 27 from a foggy Vandenberg Space Force Station, California.
Sep 27, 2021
Isotropic Systems, a British flat-panel satellite antenna systems maker backed by Boeing and venture capitalists, says it has landed $37 million in fresh funding, enough to fully fund development of its multibeam ground antenna through expected product launch in 2022.