Jean-François Fallacher judged that the Flexsat America business case was not viable because returns would occur in the 2030s as more new constellations emerge.
In 2011, Elon Musk told the Wall Street Journal that SpaceX astronauts would reach Mars in "best case, 10 years, worst case, 15 to 20 years."
An amphibious recovery ship will be positioned just offshore in case the Mengzhou capsule separates from the booster early due to an anomaly.
Debris from the Starlink 15-4 case landed in Poland in February 2025.
Airbus made the case for a potential space merger involving Thales and Leonardo and also made the case against that merger.
The IRUS program’s eight-month Phase A study contract will develop the technical groundwork and commercial case for in-orbit refurbishment and upgrading services.
The IRUS contract is an eight-month Phase A study to develop the technical groundwork and commercial case for in-orbit refurbishment and upgrading services.
SateAIs™ is a SpaceShift analytics brand that systematizes the company’s satellite data analysis algorithms by use case and delivery format.
For deuterium–tritium collisions at 1 keV, increasing the laser intensity to 5 × 10^21 W/cm2 produces a calculated fusion-probability enhancement of nine orders of magnitude relative to the field-free case.
For deuterium–tritium collisions at 1 keV, a low-frequency laser with photon energy of 1.55 eV and intensity of 10^20 W/cm2 increases the calculated fusion probability by three orders of magnitude relative to the field-free case.
Deliveries of Shenzhou-23 and Shenzhou-24 spacecraft and their Long March 2F/G launch vehicles were moved up by six months to be available in case of an emergency requiring a new spacecraft.
The model used the European Space Agency’s Argonaut mission as a case study to simulate methane spread during a landing at the South Pole.
Rocket Lab will wait for the Neutron rocket to provide its reusability case in approximately 3 years.
SpaceX prioritizes designs that enable satellites to return to the atmosphere quickly in case of failures.
MICE will be used for deorbiting satellites in case they stop functioning or at the end of their operational life.
NASA has not announced a timeline for declaring MAVEN unrecoverable and continues to treat the anomaly as an active recovery case.
The study strengthens the scientific case for a dedicated Uranus mission to capture how its radiation environment evolves over time and under varying solar wind conditions.
The success of the OSIRIS-REx mission strengthens the case for the upcoming Mars Sample Return campaign and future commercial asteroid prospecting missions.
Shenzhou-23 is not ready at Jiuquan spaceport in case of emergency.
Interstellar Technologies noted that acquiring private customer satellites for the first rocket, which often only performs launch demonstrations, is a rare case globally.