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...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... in the US being the proposed SpaceX facility in Southwest Texas at Boca Chica. Adding in the Midland Spaceport and Blue Origins private launch facility in West Texas, the State will boast four commercial space facilities in the next...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
...Satellites (red shows where the magnetic field is strengthening and blue shows where it is weakening). This means the potential ... XPrize, SpaceShipOne, SpaceX, Skybox, O3b, ViaSat, Blue Origin, Stratolaunch/Viking, Virgin Galactic, etc. have embraced...
