August 2020
Interstellar aspirations
... to human settlement of Mars and Jeff Bezos, via Blue Origin, to large-scale space industrialisation and human settlements on ...suite of scientific space exploration programmes in search of the origin, extent and nature of life in the Universe But ...
December 2018
Coffee roasting in space
...reach a suborbital altitude of roughly 180 km. We are already in discussion with a handful of providers, including Rocket Lab and Blue Origin, with a few design options to attach the payload to the rocket of choice. Depending on the launcher, the CRC...
July 2021
A shared vision for space exploration
...side. Already, several major commercial actors - including Blue Origin and SpaceX, and the industry group the Commercial... questions are worth considering. SpaceX, along with Blue Origin and industry group Commercial Spaceflight Federation are among ...
08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
...in Europe – signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Blue Origin in a collaboration which could see the two working together on a... future mission to the lunar surface, using Blue Origin’s reusable orbital rocket New Glenn. Meanwhile a subsidiary ...
February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
...to entrepreneurs like Elon Musk of SpaceX and Jeff Bezos of Blue Origin? It is clear that they have brought a revolution for ...upper atmosphere, variously called ‘elves’, ‘sprites’ and ‘blue jets’ which currently remain shrouded in mystery. Looking ...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...large upfront investment. Successfully competing with rockets in their latest incarnations (in the form of the SpaceX BFR, Blue Origin NewGlenn, NASA SLS, not to mention aerospike engines) is tough. Developing space infrastructure such as space solar...
