Major players in the satellite-delivered cabin connectivity sector are forecasting upbeat industry trends as they make headway in lining up contracts and installing kits.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a U.S.-built Japanese communications Satellite early Aug. 14, and used three of its nine engines to return its first stage to a picture-perfect tail-down landing on a robotic barge downrange from the Cape Canaveral launch site.
This week's Washington Outlook column discusses Raytheon as a big donor in the New Hampshire and Arizona Senate races, Shuster's tight race in Pennsylvania and SpaceX and Blue Origin’s Washington ties.
Astronomers continue to expand our knowledge of the Solar System and beyond with ever-improving instruments. The Hubble Space Telescope continues a process Galileo started that will continue with the James Webb Space Telescope, set for launch in 2018.
Under a launch-for-data-exchange contract, NASA will launch Lockheed Martin’s SkyFire 6U CubeSat on a lunar science trajectory as part of the agency’s Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1).
Firefly Space Systems’ 125,000-lb.-thrust engine will be the first aerospike rocket to fly and is pivotal to the company’s goal of developing a scalable family of relatively simple, lightweight launchers for the small satellite market.
This week's Washington Outlook column discusses how the next president can best secure a budget deal, FAA's certification of Moon Express and Virgin, and the presidential candidates' mixed messages on space policy.
South Korea will be the first customer for the Angara 1.2, designed for small or medium-size satellites and capable of lifting up to 3,500 kg to LEO or SSO.
NASA hopes the docking adaptor awaiting installation on ISS is just the first step in a broad range of international spacecraft standards that will be needed to explore beyond low Earth orbit.
The survival of human explorers on Mars will depend in part on how well experts size up the Red Planet’s environmental risks and resources, a NASA astronaut says.
I was probably the only 14-year-old who had his own subscription to AW&ST. But for me, the memory that resonates most has to be: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Science planners believe the approach would increase the chances another surface vehicle eventually will be able to recover them for analysis on Earth.
NASA and other governments may have an end date for the International Space Station, but private companies are creating their own for commercial purposes.
NASA and other governments may have an end date for the International Space Station, but private companies are creating their own for commercial purposes.
Concepts for the post-ISS era begin to emerge, including commercial space factories spun off the existing station, and test hardware set for launch in 2017 to manufacture potentially valuable optical fiber that can only be made in space.
An asteroid at least 10 times more massive than originally estimated appears responsible for a prominent impact site on the Moon known as the Imbrium Basin.
