November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... Technologies (AKA SpaceX), which has introduced an element of reusability to its rockets that others seek to emulate. Today, Falcon 9 first stages are regularly landed at the launch site, or on an ocean-going barge, and more than 50 have...
January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
... US DOD’s SRALT/LRALT, using similar mid-air deployment from a C17 transport aircraft, and then DARPA’s FALCON project which hoped to reduce the cost of small satellite launch with the AirLaunch QuickReach rocket. Where...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
... fuel-intensive is a flight to orbit in comparison with a typical air journey? Take SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket. With four people on board, the kerosene needed for an orbital launch comes to 39,000 kg per person...
June 2022
Patent protection for space manufacturing
.... Varda Space Industries aims to build the first factory in space with the launch of its first spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rideshare mission planned for early 2023. Rocket Lab is to build and jointly operate multiple Photon Spacecraft...
