Space Industry Analysis
Apr 15, 2015
The company is striving to keep average cost of a new Vulcan rocket under $100 million as it preps for competition against SpaceX.
Apr 15, 2015
Asteroid-mission development will shape human/machine teaming for exploration.
Apr 14, 2015
Preparations are underway to begin testing a small-sat launcher dubbed Electron that would use the turbomachinery and other innovations to hold the cost per mission below $5 million.
Apr 14, 2015
The flight of Apollo 13 in April 1970 was one of the most dramatic events in the history of human spaceflight –- and ultimately one of NASA’s finest hours. For three days, the lives of three astronauts who had been bound for the third lunar landing mission hung in the balance.
Apr 13, 2015
The U.S. Air Force claims the new LISC deal could save up to $1.8 billion over 10 years, although skeptics question how.
Apr 10, 2015
Ahead of next week's Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, our editors discuss the latest on an American-built engine to send U.S. national security assets to space, competition between ULA and Space X, the state of U.S.-Russian relations and more.
Jul 29, 2021
NASA and Roscosmos are investigating the inadvertent thruster firings of the newly arrived Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module, which temporarily moved the International Space Station station out of orientation.
Jul 29, 2021
The UK’s aviation regulator and its air accident investigation organization have had their purview extended into orbit after legislation for space launch was given final approval.
Jul 29, 2021
With the successful launch of an experimental cubesat for the U.S. Space Force, Rocket Lab returned its Electron small satellite launcher into commercial service on July 29, with about six more missions on its manifest for the year.
Jul 28, 2021
Rocket Lab intends to return its Electron small satellite launcher into commercial service as early as July 29 following an accident two months ago.
Jul 28, 2021
German satellite launch startup Isar Aerospace has secured $75 million from investors which include Porsche, the majority owner of the Volkswagen automobile company.
Jul 27, 2021
The space agencies of Canada, Italy and Japan are joining with NASA in a worldwide call for qualified applicants to contribute to a measurement definition team that will support a future International Mars Ice Mapper Mission orbiter.
Jul 26, 2021
With nearly $1.8 million in private donations, a pair of Harvard University scientists has unveiled a project to use civilian science observatories and instruments to scout for unidentified aerial phenomena in Earth’s skies and beyond.
Jul 26, 2021
Fresh off Blue Origin’s first human spaceflight, founder Jeff Bezos is offering to cut his company’s fee for a human lunar landing demonstration mission dramatically and add—at company expense—an orbital flight test.