Canadian crown jewel MDA Corp. navigates dual citizenship
MDA Corp. is in the midst of a major transformation toward a more U.S.-focused company, starting with its chief executive, Howard L. Lance, formerly o...
Commercial SSA and the case for collaboration
When we heard about the July 18 debris-generating event involving DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 commercial imaging satellite, we immediately launched our...
Northern Exposure
As MDA Corp. and Com Dev angle for business in the United States, Europe’s Airbus sees an opening in Canada
Airbus is looking to push into the Canada...
QuickTakes (09-12-2016)
New fellowship offers aerospace internships
Brooke Owens Fellowship Program
A new fellowship program honoring a space industry professional who pas...
Not all regulatory problems are equal
The story sounds familiar. Companies in the space industry argue that government regulators are dragging their heels, delaying reviews of license appl...
The next frontier in deep space exploration
The original Earthrise photo taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft in 1968. Credit: NASAAs a U.S. senator from Michigan, the epicenter of the automo...
Time for the U.S. military to let go of the civil space situational awareness mission
Four years ago, I wrote an in-depth report called “Going Blind” on how the United States was in danger of losing its ability to “see” in space, a capa...
SSA Sidebar: Reliable and responsive SSA – what it takes
Reliable and responsive space situational awareness (SSA) services are needed more than ever before, and the need is growing every day. This is for r...
The White Knight is talking backwards
Launchers, launchers everywhere;
Demand is mostly flat.
But customers fear bottlenecks.
What should we make of that?SpaceX’s Sept. 1 pre-fligh...
Connecting Flights
Mobile satellite communications is soaring to new heights
Every major satellite fleet operator is positioning itself to win the aeronautical broadban...
Was Eutelsat’s profit bombshell just a blip or something bigger?
“We remind you that our business is not devoid of growth opportunities,” Eutelsat Chief Executive Rodolphe Belmer told investors in late July.
It’s t...
What’s in a name? For OSIRIS-REx, a lot
On the evening of Sept. 8, an Atlas 5 is scheduled to launch NASA’s latest planetary science mission. That spacecraft will travel to the asteroid Benn...