... 200 patents were filed in 2017, and almost half of them (49 percent) came from big companies such as Boeing or Airbus. The numbers make no sense in the current NewSpace era, where the number of venture capital firms...
... Union). Spin-off technologies will develop, and the horizontal launch systems themselves will develop as the Boeing 747 is replaced by craft running cleaner and cleaner fuels. Finally, these craft will reach space and...
... for commercial success. Among the dozen or so projects for Internet-related satellite constellations, we find those of Boeing and OneWeb, and a similar initiative being prepared by the Chinese Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. However...
... larger multi-national enterprises. These are of course the larger strategic firms such as Lockheed Martin, Airbus, Boeing and Northrop Grumman. While this can be a good source of capital for companies, it also puts them on a path...
... Hoyle was famously quoted as saying that it is comparable to the chance of a tornado sweeping through a junkyard and assembling a Boeing 747. Such an argument has even been used to claim that the origin of life cannot be understood by natural...
... will continue to fuel this trend as follows: Mega-constellations, such as those announced for internet-from-space by Boeing (1396 satellites), SpaceX (Starlink, 4425 satellites) and Amazon (Kuiper, 3236 satellites). It is expected that mass...