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...
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...
April 2026
Robotics is the future of space labour
...cost, which exceeds $1.1 billion. In its place, a fleet of commercial stations from Axiom Space, Starlab, Vast and Blue Origin aims to sustain both scientific discovery and a continuous American heartbeat in space. The first of these commercial space...
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, ...
