Space Industry Analysis
Apr 07, 2014
Mention aircraft broadband connectivity and the first thought is Wi-Fi access for passengers. But engineers are already looking beyond updating Facebook and streaming YouTube inflight
Apr 04, 2014
NASA and Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, demonstrated their resolve to sustain a hard fought partnership
Apr 03, 2014
Lynn is the CEO of Finmeccanica North America and DRS Technologies and a former U.S. deputy secretary of defense.
Apr 03, 2014
The newly reconstituted French government will see Benoit Hamon replace outgoing National Education Minister Vincent Peillon and Minister of Higher Education and Research Genevieve Fioraso, whose agency oversees funding for French civil space programs. French President Francois Hollande approved the new government on April 2 after his ruling Socialist Party suffered losses in local elections.
Apr 01, 2014
An aromatic hydrocarbon found in meteorites, dimethylnaphthalene, is offering researchers signatures of far flung violent events in the universe,
Apr 01, 2014
SpaceX continues to shake up the industry with significantly lower costs to orbit than other launch providers
Feb 23, 2021
The buildup of Launch Complex 36 (LC36) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for Blue Origin’s upcoming New Glenn reusable orbital booster is nearing completion, Scott Henderson, vice president of test and flight operations, said Feb. 23.
Feb 23, 2021
A yearlong study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) stresses an urgency for assessing two nuclear propulsion options if the U.S. is to lead a multiyear human expedition to Mars in the late 2030s.
Feb 23, 2021
Redwire, a busy private equity funded space rollup, announced Feb. 23 it had acquired Deployable Space Systems, a provider of deployable solar arrays, structures and mechanisms for space applications.
Feb 23, 2021
After delays due to a launch failure and the COVID-19 crisis, Avio is proceeding with the development of an upgraded version of its light launcher, Vega C, planning on a three-year transition over 2021-24.
Feb 23, 2021
Russia intends to accelerate launch trials for its new Angara rockets.
Feb 23, 2021
NASA has delayed the planned Feb. 25 full-duration hot fire of the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage due to a faulty valve in the system that supplies liquid oxygen to one of the vehicle’s four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines.
Feb 22, 2021
Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and pediatric cancer survivor, will fly along with entrepreneur and pilot Jared Isaacman on a chartered SpaceX Crew Dragon flight.
Feb 22, 2021
“This is the first time we’ve been able to actually capture an event like the landing of a spacecraft of Mars,” JPL Director Michael Watkins said at a Feb. 22 news conference.