Space Industry Analysis
Apr 24, 2013
On an otherwise typical morning on vacation at his parents’ apartment, Raytheon engineer, Steve H., walked over to the table to grab the morning edition of the New York Times
Apr 24, 2013
In 1960, the United States propelled two six-inch-long television cameras into space on a satellite called TIROS 1. Rotating slowly above Earth, the satellite beamed back still images from two-watt transmitters
Apr 24, 2013
When Robert Curbeam was a kid, he spent hours designing airplanes and rockets: sketching out the fins, coloring in the flames and pondering the sweep of each hand-drawn wing
Apr 22, 2013
Charter offers free satellite imagery to aid disaster relief
Apr 22, 2013
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Apr 22, 2013
Metamaterials technology is an emerging field based on the development of tiny, man-made structures that at certain frequencies exhibit acoustic, electromagnetic or optical properties not found in nature.
Oct 13, 2020
It was the seventh flight of the booster and capsule, and the program’s 13th launch since the first New Shepard system debuted in April 2015.
Oct 13, 2020
The SLS’s four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines will ignite for a full-duration, 8-min. firing at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi
Oct 13, 2020
NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have selected a new technology for planetary sample collection and return for future missions to the Moon and Martian moon Phobos.
Oct 12, 2020
In the Lunar Gateway's current form, “Russia is likely to refrain from participating in it on a large scale,” the head of Russia's space agency says.
Oct 12, 2020
The company is investigating an unexpected pressure rise in a Merlin 1D engine turbomachinery gas generator.
Oct 09, 2020
The U.S. Space Development Agency is looking for a company to launch an initial set of 28 communications and missile tracking satellites to low Earth orbit beginning in September 2022.
Oct 09, 2020
NASA is allocating $19.3 million for 21 studies on the physical and psychological issues astronauts will face as the agency prepares to return to the Moon’s surface in 2024 and advance to Mars in the 2030s.
Oct 09, 2020
As NASA continues feasibility studies into nuclear propulsion for deep space missions, DARPA has awarded an initial contract to help pave the way toward possible orbital tests of a nuclear-powered rocket for U.S. military use in and around cislunar space.