Space Industry Analysis
May 06, 2013
Japanese space programs face strict new reality
May 06, 2013
Inexpensive satellites little bigger than a Rubik's Cube have been the provenance of university and small research projects for more than a decade. Increasingly, innovations from the smartphone world are showing how these classroom projects can play outsized roles in space science.
May 06, 2013
Rocket-boosted transonic flight launches final test phase
May 01, 2013
In a bustling factory in Mississippi, shiny blue cradles holding new aircraft radars line up for shipment like jets on a flight line, ready for takeoff
Apr 29, 2013
Thrust-oscillation technology finds military, civilian applications
Apr 29, 2013
U.S. satellite termination leaves no clear plan for midcourse tracking
Oct 15, 2020
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) hopes to begin developing an upgrade for the H3 medium space launcher in 2022, only a year after the first flight, with the aim of driving payload up and unit costs down.
Oct 14, 2020
Both companies will serve as prime contractors for the definition phase of the European Large Logistics Lander, supporting NASA's Artemis human lunar missions.
Oct 14, 2020
The first countries to sign bilateral Artemis Accords agreements with the U.S. are Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.
Oct 14, 2020
Stockholm is planning to make investments in the planned launch site, near Kiruna in the north of the country, that would enable smallsat launch as early as 2022.
Oct 14, 2020
Chinese engineers have designed and tested equipment for aerial recovery of space launcher main engines, which they regard as offering advantages over powered descent by fully reusable first stages.
Oct 14, 2020
Rotating crews of astronauts and cosmonauts have been living aboard the orbital outpost for 20 years. Here are some other numbers behind the milestone.
Oct 13, 2020
The reserve could support perhaps 1,100 lunar personnel living and working permanently in the cislunar realm to grow a future $3 trillion annual space economy, ULA president and CEO Tory Bruno says.
Oct 13, 2020
The seven-year-old startup targeting end-of-life and debris-removal services for low Earth orbit satellites and beyond has landed $51 million in new venture capital from several investors.