17 July 2017
New company seeks to shake-up satellite launch industry
.... “We are hard at work developing a series of novel, never-seen-before technologies for creating our own orbital launch service and changing the way things get to space. Altogether, we made significant progress in the last ten months...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...10 per cent (the lowering of corporate risk); included in the production of space rockets and satellites are launch services (vertical integration). However, all space sector companies are large, with little competition. So there is little motivation...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... centre and Mithi River, Mumbai, India. They suggested that US launch services were at a disadvantage as they were being wiped out of competition for the launch of micro and nanosatellites. Similar concerns had also been expressed at a US hearing...
January 2019
Is the NewSpace bubble about to burst?
... to raise money in the face of a rapid decline in launch demand allied with increasing competition from Blue Origin, which doesn’t ...Fund. And finally, given the lack of demand for launch services, the need for the BFR now seems highly questionable, ...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
... Defense Analysis, China now has close to 80 commercial space companies, most of them focused on satellite manufacturing and launch services. Last summer, i-Space became the first privately owned Chinese rocket company – and third in the world...
13 March 2015
New rockets on the scene: ESA approves Ariane 6, Vega-C
... system, that requires 24 operational satellites (plus in-orbit spares), which should guarantee a continuing demand for launch services. Dordain said that at yesterday's meeting ministers committed €4 billion for the development of Ariane 6 and Vega...
