Space Industry Analysis
Mar 19, 2021
Suborbital flights, tourist missions are not the allure for this adventure pilot.
Mar 19, 2021
The Pentagon is diversifying the U.S. early missile warning portfolio with a mix of satellite types and sizes in different orbits to prevent unwanted missile attacks.
Mar 18, 2021
NASA is partnering with the commercial space industry to execute its ISS missions and its plan to put humans on the lunar surface.
Mar 18, 2021
UK Defense Review Provokes Backlash; China’s hypersonic ambitions; Yaogan-31 satellites launched; and Pentagon awards launch contract.
Mar 17, 2021
After a series of cancelled programs over a decade ago, U.S. military officials make a new push for tracking moving targets from space.
Mar 16, 2021
Agency to transition communications services to commercial providers.
May 24, 2023
Tokyo-based Gitai, a startup developing several space robots, has raised about ¥4 billion ($29 million) in funding as part of a Series B extension round.
May 24, 2023
Russia’s MS-23 Progress resupply mission spacecraft autonomously docked to the Russian segment of the International Space Station at midday May 24.
May 24, 2023
Virgin Orbit will close after its assets were bought by four bankruptcy bidders including Rocket Lab and Stratolaunch.
May 23, 2023
NASA’s LROC has captured what appears to be images of debris scattered on the Moon at the planned landing site of ispace’s lunar lander, which crashed in April.
May 23, 2023
NASA has selected a new mission to study high-altitude ice clouds that form daily in Earth’s tropical and subtropical regions.
May 23, 2023
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded a contract to Ursa Major that will help it develop two key products.
May 22, 2023
ULA returned its first Vulcan rocket to the launchpad on May 22 in preparation for a static test firing of the booster’s dual BE-4 main engines.
May 19, 2023
SWISSto12 has received a contract to build three small geostationary communications satellites for Inmarsat.