Space Industry Analysis
Sep 17, 2012
Last week, a fresh set of calls urged Congress to address the nation's financial situation. Executives from Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems and EADS North America are proceeding with pre-election plans to warn thousands of workers that they might be laid off early next year. Two former Treasury secretaries, one Republican and one Democrat, said failing to address America's debt problem has dire economic and foreign policy implications. And Moody's rating agency now says the nation's long-held AAA rating hinges on congressional budget negotiations. Sen.
Sep 17, 2012
Francesco Caio Title: CEO, Avio Age: 55 Birthplace: Naples, Italy Education: Engineering degree from Milan Politecnico and MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.
Sep 17, 2012
As Airbus's new CEO, Fabrice Bregier, and COO, Gunter Butschek, make major changes to the aircraft manufacturer's organization, the company's position within the EADS group has been strengthened. Two Airbus executives, Butschek and COO for Customers John Leahy, have been added to EADS's executive board, which now has 13 members including CEO Tom Enders.
Sep 03, 2012
SSTL expands potential for what smallsats can do in navigation, Earth observation and military applications.
Sep 03, 2012
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 with a Centaur upper stage lifted NASA's twin Radiation Belt Storm Probe mission spacecraft into orbit Aug. 30 from Cape Canaveral on a two-year mission to study high-energy particle fluctuations within Earth's Van Allen radiation belts. The $686 million mission is expected to investigate how the belts respond to solar activity and influence space weather. The two 1,400-lb. probes were developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as part of NASA's Living with a Star initiative.
Sep 03, 2012
Germany's aerospace industry has been growing, driven by civil air transport demand. But it is facing difficult changes as its defense-related business contracts.
May 18, 2020
BEIJING—China is likely to finish its Beidou 3 satellite navigation system six months before the original program target of the end of 2020, with the 30th and final spacecraft due to go into orbit next month.
May 17, 2020
After a one-day delay due to poor weather, the 197-ft. (60-m) tall Atlas V lifted off from Space Launch Complex 41 at 9:14 a.m. EDT to deliver an Air Force X-37B test vehicle into orbit for a sixth mission.
May 15, 2020
Virgin Orbit completed a second dress rehearsal of its LauncherOne small satellite launch system on May 15, but plans to conduct some additional testing ahead of the vehicle’s orbital test flight, targeted for later this month.
May 15, 2020
The U.S. Defense Department has signed a contract with Capella Space to provide airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data and analytic services to the U.S. Navy.
May 15, 2020
Seeking a future, energy-efficient ride to cislunar space, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a demonstration program for a spacecraft powered by a nuclear thermal propulsion system.
May 15, 2020
Using the 1967 United Nations Outer Space Treaty as a blueprint, NASA on May 15 unveiled a framework for conducting missions on and around the Moon that it hopes to parlay into a series of bilateral agreements with other countries.
May 14, 2020
NASA is slowing reopening some of its facilities, including parts of the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, where work to prepare the first Space Launch System (SLS) for a static test fire has been on hiatus for two months due to the coronavirus pandemic.
May 14, 2020
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley have begun a two-week quarantine ahead of a flight test of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS.)