Space Industry Analysis
Apr 02, 2012
Aviation Week Senior Editor for Space Frank Morring, Jr., received the National Space Club's 2011 Press Award on March 30 in Washington. The club, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting U.S. space activity and interests, gave the award to Morring at its annual Robert H. Goddard Memorial Dinner.
Apr 02, 2012
Australian forces deployed in Afghanistan will have improved tactical UHF satellite links starting in May, when the Intelsat 22 commercial communications satellite reaches its operational orbit at 72 deg. E. Long.
Apr 02, 2012
It is too early to tell if it just another case of engineering exuberance associated with hypersonics or something more substantive, but there is a palpable sense among French developers that high-speed missile and air vehicle concepts are ready for the development stage.
Mar 19, 2012
It's no secret that Boeing's space systems unit is aggressively pricing bids in an effort to grow its commercial business segment as government spending flags. But even the most bullish observers were taken aback by an estimated $400 million deal just signed with Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) and Satellites Mexicanos (SatMex) to build the first all-electric commercial telecom spacecraft intended for launch to geostationary orbit.
Mar 19, 2012
Robert J. Stevens, the CEO of Lockheed Martin, went to Capitol Hill on March 14 with a message for lawmakers: You're making my life hell. At issue are automatic cuts to U.S. defense spending scheduled to take effect next January. If Congress and the Obama administration cannot reach a budget compromise by then, military budgets will be hit with a $53 billion cut in 2013 and another $450 billion in reductions during the next nine years.
Mar 19, 2012
Jilted by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) has decided to press ahead with its ExoMars program in partnership with the Russian space agency Roscosmos, which plans to contribute Proton launch vehicles and a new entry, descent and landing system to the ambitious two-pronged Mars mission in 2016 and 2018. Russia's arrival as the savior of ExoMars is not without cost, however, as ESA will now have to fund development of a rover for the 2018 mission that NASA had previously planned to share.
Mar 05, 2020
NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return spacecraft descended to its lowest altitude yet over the asteroid Bennu earlier this week to gather high-resolution imagery of its primary sample collection site.
Mar 05, 2020
The Lunar and Planetary Science Conference scheduled for March 16-20 has been canceled due to concerns over the coronavirus.
Mar 04, 2020
Northrop Grumman subsidiary SpaceLogistics has signed on as DARPA’s commercial partner for the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program.
Mar 04, 2020
Satellite communications terminal supplier Isotropic Systems will license components of its optical multi-beamforming antenna technology to aerospace and defense companies to build products “capable of unleashing a new era of inflight connectivity.”
Mar 04, 2020
AE Industrial Partners, a private equity investor specializing in aerospace, defense and government services, said it has acquired Adcole Maryland Aerospace, a design, test and manufacturer of satellite parts and smallsats.
Mar 03, 2020
S7 Space Corp. has started to relocate the Sea Launch complex from Long Beach, California, to Russia’s Far East.
Mar 03, 2020
Though facing a third attempt at cancellation, NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Space Telescope has passed a critical milestone that clears the way for challenging hardware development and testing.
Mar 03, 2020
One of the goals of the $2.5 billion Mars 2020 rover mission is to determine how future human explorers could exploit the Martian soil and atmosphere.