Space Industry Analysis
Jun 29, 2023
Building a space taxi for NASA turned out to be a whole lot harder than Boeing imagined.
Jun 19, 2023
For future surveillance satellites, the service seeks new thrusters and in-space refueling so it can “burn gas at will.”
Jun 16, 2023
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Jun 14, 2023
Ultimately, heritage hardware, not new technology, is the cause.
Jun 12, 2023
Ariane 6 delays and problems with Vega C leave European launch industry mostly grounded.
Jun 09, 2023
Safran’s CEO sees challenges and opportunities in aerospace manufacturing and space launch in the coming years.
Nov 06, 2023
The demo would be led by the Space Technology Mission Directorate.
Nov 06, 2023
Norway’s Andøya Spaceport has opened new facilities to enable satellite launches from the High North of Scandinavia.
Nov 06, 2023
China’s iSpace has completed the country’s first test of a reusable rocket, performing a 50-sec. "hop" with the first stage of its Hyperbola-2 launch vehicle.
Nov 03, 2023
SpaceX’s internet-beaming Starlink satellite division has reached cash flow breakeven, CEO Elon Musk says.
Nov 03, 2023
NASA has rescheduled the planned launch of an International Space Station resupply mission from Nov. 7 to Nov. 9 because of a nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer leak.
Nov 03, 2023
Retired U. S. Navy Rear Admiral Thomas K. Mattingly II, who served as NASA’s Apollo 16 mission command pilot and went on to lead two space shuttle missions, passed away on Oct. 31
Nov 02, 2023
The SwRI's Alan Stern and two other paying passengers joined a Virgin Galactic crew for a short suborbital hop on Nov. 2.
Nov 02, 2023
Highly anticipated data from the Nov. 1, 12:54 p.m. EDT flyby will take up to a week to reach the Earth over NASA's Deep Space Network.