April 2026
Exploring Mars – the key issues
...SpaceX’s Starship, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur, Blue Origin’s New Glenn and Rocket Lab’s Neutron. MOXIE takes... oxygen (LOX) rockets are being developed by SpaceX, Blue Origin and various Chinese organisations, but they are not as efficient...
15 January 2020
Rising sea levels pose threat to KSC
... economy, which earns around $3 billion a year from ‘space’, is certainly banking on its success as long as possible. But Blue Origin's Henderson envisions a time when there will be thousands of spaceports across the world and that, ultimately, Cape...
June 2017
Space economics - industry trends and space investing
... and those involved in remote sensing and communications. New launch entrants include Vector Space, Rocket Labs, Blue Origin and Relativity Space, all of which are attempting to optimise a three variable value equation: availability, reliability and...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
... in the US that have started developing private space capabilities. Think about the flights of Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin and of course, SpaceX, which has developed the Dragon Spacecraft. So we see, in the United States, a kind of space...
January 2023
Evolving human space culture – reflections on humanity’s cultural potential in space
... us this far in creating a new safe, sustainable living paradigm in space. Actor William Shatner’s commentary on his historic Blue Origin launch experience reflects both the influence of the monumental Overview Effect, and his profound, abiding grief...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... costs by employing advanced manufacturing methods to build cheaper expendable vehicles. A few, most notably Space-X and Blue Origin, are working to introduce some degree of reusability into their vehicles, though such ventures tend to be funded...
