Space Industry Analysis
Jul 22, 2013
Space station starts generating revenue
Jul 22, 2013
More space programs are set to feel sequestration's effects, particularly on the civilian side as lawmakers responsible for NASA are increasingly—and bitterly—at odds. Last week, Senate appropriators, led by Democrats, recommended $18 billion for the agency for 2014. But despite his stated approval of the legislation, senior Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) voted against the measure in committee because it adheres to Senate Democrats' overall federal budget allocations.
Jul 22, 2013
The nine USAF fighter squadrons grounded since April by the 2011 Budget Control Act's automatic sequestration cuts are flying again, but whether they will remain so after September—and whether there will be anyone to fly or maintain them starting
Jul 22, 2013
Non-toxic satellite propulsion gaining ground
Jul 22, 2013
Carbon in its many forms is transforming manufacturing, from electronics to structures. Aerospace uses carbon in fiber form, but new nano-structured materials are emerging that promise improved properties and expanded applications.
Jul 19, 2013
Forty years after landing on the Moon, Neil Armstrong explains why the Apollo program successes were not miraculous.
Nov 13, 2020
The European Space Agency has awarded three contracts to Airbus and Thales Alenia Space as part of Copernicus Expansion, an addition to the existing, wide-ranging Copernicus Earth observation program.
Nov 13, 2020
SpaceX Founder, CEO and Chief Engineer Elon Musk has received two positive and two negative test results for COVID-19, he said on Twitter Nov. 13.
Nov 13, 2020
Virgin Galactic Chief Operating Officer Enrico Palermo will become the new head of the Australian Space Agency.
Nov 12, 2020
Achieving a return to the Moon’s surface with human explorers by 2024 tops a list of seven signature management and performance challenges that NASA faces over the coming decade, an assessment from the agency’s inspector general says.
Nov 11, 2020
Raytheon Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Blue Canyon Technologies, a pioneering provider of small satellites and spacecraft systems components, for about $350 million.
Nov 11, 2020
The $3.84 billion lunar-orbiting, human-tended Gateway that NASA envisions as part of a long-term strategy to establish a sustained human presence at the Moon is unlikely to be in place in time to support the Trump administration’s goal of returning astronauts to the lunar surface in 2024, an audit by the agency’s inspector general says.
Nov 10, 2020
NASA and SpaceX on Nov. 10 completed the Flight Readiness Review for the first post-shuttle, operational International Space Station (ISS) crew rotation mission from the U.S., paving the way for a launch attempt of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:49 p.m. EST on Nov. 14 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Nov 10, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden has selected an eight-member team of volunteers, headed by Ellen Stofan, former NASA chief scientist and current director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, to oversee the transition of NASA to his administration.