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...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
... potentially fulfilling billionaire Elon Musk’s dream of colonising Mars. Other heavy rocket launches include ULA’s Vulcan, Blue Origin’s New Glenn, as well as Europe’s Ariane 6 and Japan’s H3. Small launch providers Relativity and ABL Space Systems...
31 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Publishes Letter to the Washington Space Establishment
...'t black sky speculation. I am not prognosticating about some far-off may-when. It is happening now -- and accelerating. Blue Origin and SpaceX showed reusability from space (OK, Elon, you went to orbit and Bezos went to space), and...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
...SpaceX went from strength to strength, as did Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin. And if that wasn’t enough, plans for the first ...will collect valuable information far beyond the mission’s original plan, including sampling the atmosphere and ionosphere, ...
29 August 2022
Lift-off draws close for NASA’s spectacular lunar return mission
... from private US space companies such as Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. US taxpayers are expected to...slightly larger than those used on NASA's Space Shuttle) and originally part of Constellation's Ares 1 rocket to launch Orion, ...
June 2015
Re-usable rockets: a new breakthrough for suborbital research
...thanks to dedicated efforts by next generation reusable suborbital rocket firms like Virgin Galactic, XCOR Aerospace, and Blue Origin, the field is on the verge of a revolution in how we access space. It will dramatically lower prices and create more...
