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National Defense
June 2008
Breanne Wagner |
Low-Cost Space Launch Vehicles Await Liftoff A new generation of small rockets may fulfill the Air Force's goal of creating a market for low-cost space launches.   |
National Defense
July 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Pentagon Pushes for Smaller Satellites, Faster Launches The Roadrunner satellite helps break down barriers impeding the flow of information between commanders on the ground and spacecraft, and quickly replaces assets damaged in orbit. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Will Take To The Skies Again Next Week CEO Elon Musk confirmed via Twitter that SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket around December 19. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2009 |
Behind the Scenes With the World's Most Ambitious Rocket Makers In late 2001, Tom Mueller was sacrificing his nights and weekends to build a liquid-fuel rocket engine in his garage. |
Fast Company
Christina Farr |
SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Is "Ready to Fire Again" The Falcon 9 rocket carried a payload of 11 satellites to orbit last month and returned to Earth with a vertical landing Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. |
IndustryWeek
September 14, 2011 |
Cost in Space NASA is encouraging U.S. companies to create vessels capable of transporting cargo on the 'final frontier.' |
Popular Mechanics
September 2007
David Noland |
The 'New Space' Race: Handicapping the Billionaire Rocketeers Fueled by interest in space tourism, as well as NASA contracts to replace the shuttle in 2010, the private "New Space" industry is finally looking like the real thing. |
National Defense
July 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Launch Contract Dispute Pits SpaceX Against Air Force, ULA A dispute between rocket-builder SpaceX and the Air Force over launch contracts came to the fore when the company's founder, Elon Musk announced a lawsuit directed at the service. |
National Defense
February 2012
Eric Beidel |
Booster Sought To Launch and Launch Some More When rocket boosters propel a vehicle into space, it usually is a one-time deal. Parts of a launch system burn up, fall into the ocean or remain in an orbital graveyard never to be used again. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Elon Musk |
Risky Business Why Mars is more important than cosmetics and why a failed launch is also a partial success |
BusinessWeek
December 12, 2005
Stan Crock |
The Final Frontier At Costco Prices SpaceX aims to cut the frills and offer bargain satellite launches. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2004 |
U.S. space experts focus on reusable launch systems for small satellites The business of orbital satellites continues to grow, and the biggest growth in demand is coming from the smallest payloads. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009
Michael Belfiore |
7 International Spacecraft that Could Replace NASA's Shuttle NASA's Orion won't be ready until at least 2015, but the current space shuttle is due to retire next year. Meet the seven international spacecraft from the world's space fleet that could inherit the job of ferrying supplies into space. |
BusinessWeek
May 5, 2011
McGarry & Capaccio |
The Air Force Kicks Off a New Space Race Lockheed Martin and Boeing may lose from the Air Force's plan to open the $9.9 billion satellite launch business to competition. |
Fast Company
February 2005
Jennifer Reingold |
Hondas in Space The ex-CEO of PayPal is spending a fortune to prove you can build rockets faster, cheaper, and better. Innovation, it seems, isn't always rocket science. |
Fast Company
David Lumb |
Jeff Bezos's Rocket Company Will Test Reusable Spacecraft Later This Year The company's New Shepard reusable capsule is designed to eventually carry tourists and science experiments to the edge of space. |
Popular Mechanics
January 6, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
Private Space on Pace to Run NASA's Space Supply NASA contracts to private space companies represents a shift away from government-run space hardware toward rockets and spaceships designed and operated by the private sector. |
Popular Mechanics
October 28, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Rooting for NASA's Ares I Rockets: Analysis This week, all eyes were on NASA as it conducted the first flight of the Ares I, the first launch vehicle the agency designed since the Space Shuttle. October also witnessed progress in other space launches |
National Defense
June 2012
Stew Magnuson |
Industry, Space Agencies Seek Ways To Lower Launch Costs In an age of austere federal budgets, the Air Force and National Reconnaissance Office are looking to reduce the spiraling cost of placing their heaviest satellites into space. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Meet The New Zealand Company That's 3-D Printing Rocket Engines... And They Work An upstart New Zealand rocket company says it has found a way to drastically cut the cost of satellite launches: 3-D printing rocket components. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
James Oberg |
Private Spaceflight: Up, Up, and Away This year, commercial spaceflight will really take off |
National Defense
April 2011
Stew Magnuson |
It's Not All Bad News When It Comes to the Health of the U.S. Space Industrial Base The health and welfare of the companies that produce spacecraft, payloads, rockets and ground stations for everyone from NASA to intelligence agencies has been the source of much hand-wringing during the past few years. |
Entrepreneur
April 2005
Mark Henricks |
Space Cowboys High-profile entrepreneurs pursue the final frontier. |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Otis Port |
Space Travel: Bringing Costs Down To Earth NASA should give startups room to maneuver |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2008
J.R. Wilson |
DARPA Black Swift Seeks to Capitalize on Lessons Learned From NASP DARPA and the U.S. Air Force have joined efforts to develop a hypersonic aerospace vehicle to function as a low-Earth-orbit spacecraft and capable of speeds as fast as Mach 6. |
Inc.
December 2008 |
2008: A Closer Look A look at a private rocket company, Michael Phelps' mom, and the marketers of the year. |
The Motley Fool
December 21, 2004
Tim Beyers |
Rest in...Space? Privately held SpaceX plans to offer space burials. Rule-breaking industries develop when what was thought to be the domain of the privileged becomes accessible to all. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2, 2009
Rand Simberg |
Ares' Continued Technical Problems and Money Troubles: Guest Analysis There is a bigger concern; one not previously discussed publicly in a program that has had several as-yet-unresolved technical concerns in its four-year history. |
National Defense
July 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Costs, Benefits of RD-180 Rocket Engine Replacement Program Debated The U.S. national security space community was left wondering this spring whether a Russian company would continue to supply it with engines needed to launch heavy payloads on its Atlas rockets. |
Popular Mechanics
February 8, 2010
Rand Simberg |
The New NASA: A Path To Anywhere, And Everywhere The author believes that NASA's new path, outlined by the president's budget, holds promise of real progress. |
Popular Mechanics
July 14, 2008 |
Inside Mojave Air and Space Port: Photo & Video Gallery Think you've seen the future of private spaceflight? Think again. Take a look at the freewheeling desert outpost where maverick engineers are inventing the next generation of planes. |
Fast Company
Nikita Richardson |
Jeff Bezos's Rocket Company Just Came A Step Closer To Carrying Humans To Space Between Boeing, Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, Xcor, and Blue Origin, the private space race is fully underway. |
Popular Mechanics
December 2006
Thomas D. Jones |
Tech Watch: Resident Astronaut To cut costs, NASA plans to outsource its shipping jobs. |
Fast Company
March 2014
Jon Gertner |
Why Companies Are Lining Up To Test Golf Clubs (And Other Products) On The Space Station Since its launch the space station has mainly served as a place in which astronauts from NASA and foreign space agencies conduct experiments involving health and the physical sciences. It was never intended to help private companies improve their products and market share. |
Inc.
December 2007
Max Chafkin |
The Companies of Elon Musk How the Entrepreneur of the Year does business and makes waves. |
Popular Mechanics
February 1, 2010
Michael Belfiore |
Human Space Flight Needn't Rely on NASA: Guest Analysis Is Obama's just-released NASA budget the "death march for the future of U.S. human space flight," as Senator Richard Shelby proclaims on his website today? Or is it in fact a new beginning for the space agency? |
Wired
October 20, 2008
Preston Lerner |
Pyro Geek Hobbyists Experiment With Homebrew Rockets The Association of Rocket Mavericks is a group of amateur rocketeers that are the top guns of model rocketry and may be the future innovators of the aerospace industry. |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2010
Rich Smith |
In Space, Everyone Can Hear You Cheer Move over Boeing, and look out Lockheed Martin: There's a new rocket scientist in town, and its name is Space Exploration Technologies. |
InternetNews
April 9, 2009
David Needle |
Tesla Motors CEO Unplugged Elon Musk said the dashboard of the next Tesla electric car will be "like a giant iPhone." |
Popular Mechanics
April 2003
Paul Eisenstein |
Biggest Engine Ever Built It was the largest, most powerful rocket ever built and, having served as the launch platform for the Apollo manned moon mission, probably qualifies as the most famous rocket as well. |
National Defense
June 2009
Stew Magnuson |
Slowdown In New Programs Erodes Space Industrial Base The U.S. space industry is losing critical skills and talent and is on a "downward trend," said Gen. C. Robert Kehler, the leader of Air Force Space Command. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2009
Aldrin & Noland |
Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives. |
Popular Mechanics
June 19, 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
7 Expert Answers for How Big Business Will Spend Cash in Space At the first-ever Space Business Forum in New York, leading rocket scientists, military officers and even hedge-fund managers crunched the numbers to illuminate the future of the space industry. |
Popular Mechanics
September 11, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
How to Make a (More) Environmentally Friendly Rocket Fuel Every NASA space shuttle launch leaves a huge cloud of exhaust in its wake, and some nasty chemicals lurk in the exhaust. |
Fast Company
February 2005
Jennifer Reingold |
How to Innovate Faster, Cheaper, Better At Space Exploration Technologies, innovation is measured in small, incremental improvements. Here's how they do it. |
Inc.
December 2007
Max Chafkin |
Entrepreneur of the Year: Elon Musk Electric sports cars. Solar power. Space travel. Finally, an entrepreneur who's not afraid to think really, really big. |
Popular Mechanics
April 27, 2009
Davin Coburn |
Rocket Record: The Largest, Heaviest Amateur Rocket Ever Launched Steve Eves broke two world records Saturday, when his 36-ft tall, 1,648 lb rocket was the largest and heaviest amateur rocket ever launched and recovered successfully. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Sandra Upson |
Rockets For The Red Planet Engineers rethink how to get to Mars and back |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2010
Tim Beyers |
This Rule Breaker Is Otherworldly Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is one of five companies that will share $50 million in stimulus funds designed to create commercial space vehicles that NASA will use to ferry astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit. |
The Motley Fool
December 26, 2008
Rich Smith |
NASA Rejects Trojan Horse Resupply contracts for the International Space Station go to established players Orbital Sciences and SpaceX. |
