Space Industry Analysis

Dec 17, 2021
SpaceX pursuing alternative deep-space transport.
Dec 16, 2021
Multiple providers and an assortment of vehicles herald a healthy start to commercial passenger spaceflight.
Dec 15, 2021
Companies that can remain nimble or provide niche capabilities will have the advantage.
Dec 14, 2021
After years of investments, several new space technologies reach key milestones in 2022. Here are some of the people to watch.
Dec 07, 2021
The SDA’s Tranche 0 is slated to launch next September, one month before the agency officially joins the Space Force.
Dec 03, 2021
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aug 02, 2023
The last of Northrop Grumman's Antares rockets equipped with Russian NPO Energomash engines and Ukrainian Yuzhmash-developed parts launched late on Aug. 1.
Aug 02, 2023
Virgin Galactic's spaceplane VSS Unity’s cockpit and structure were enhanced for higher-tempo operations and were tested in June on its first commercial flight.
Aug 01, 2023
The B612 Foundation has made publicly available a nongovernment “precovery service” for the confirmation and orbital refining of asteroid trajectories.
Jul 31, 2023
President Joe Biden is reversing ex-President Donald Trump’s decision to move U.S. Space Command headquarters to Alabama and will keep it in Colorado Springs.
Jul 31, 2023
Euclid was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on July 1 and reached its operational orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) four weeks later.
Jul 31, 2023
Impulse Space plans two follow-on missions in 2024 after its inaugural LEO Express 1 mission before year’s end.
Jul 31, 2023
Voyager 2, one of NASA’s most distant and longest-lived spacecraft, has lost its ability to transmit data through the agency’s Deep Space Network (DSN).
Jul 28, 2023
Argentina has become the 28th signatory to the U.S.-led Artemis Accords