November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... ideas or outright changing the behaviour of industry. This is no ground-breaking idea such as those demonstrated by SpaceX or Blue Origin. Nevertheless, I find the Vision a very pragmatic and down-to-earth proposal for the current Japanese space...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
.... The price ULA is willing to pay on the surface of the Moon is US$500/kg for 1100 mT of propellant per year. Blue Origin and SpaceX are also developing transportation architectures that require in-space refuelling. In addition, NASA has indicated...
April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... a spaceport which allows vehicles and people to return safely. This is currently being established by companies such as Blue Origin and SpaceX but can potentially add a great deal of complexity to a spaceport design and its operations. A horizontal...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... century than building rockets. Witness the success of Jeff Bezos with Amazon, versus his ongoing investment in Blue Origin. But Bezos himself is bullish on space colonisation for similar reasons. His stated desire is to have millions of people...
August 2019
Space investment – from build-up to breakthrough
... entrepreneur Jeff Bezos laid out his commercial vision to explore the Moon when he unveiled the design of Blue Origin’s proposed ‘Blue Moon’ lunar lander in Washington on 9 May 2019. Success and failure The opportunities and successes visible...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... past experience of private US launch vehicle businesses: Development of suborbital manned and unmanned launchers (Virgin Galactic & Blue Origin) has so far taken about 15-19 years and required $500 million+ of investment Development of orbital small...
