Space Industry Analysis

Apr 25, 2013
HOUSTON — Russian flight control teams worked to free a rendezvous antenna aboard the Progress 51 supply ship that failed to deploy as commanded after the freighter lifted off early April 24 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station.
Apr 25, 2013
Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Va., will design, manufacture, integrate and test the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) selected by NASA earlier this month for a new all-sky search of habitable zone exoplanets under a $75 million, four-year space agency contract, the company announced April 24.
Apr 25, 2013
Continuing cuts will widen gap in U.S. human exploration capabilities
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