... journey. Whilst a lot of the space news across the UK has focussed on the country’s move into providing launch services, which would mostly deploy satellites into fixed orbits, very little has been done to develop in-space...
...available on the unrestricted open market. These needed components, systems and other elements, including rocket engines or launch services, may be obtainable from governments or private companies, but are subject to licensing and transfer and export...
... university project budgets are tight and often require state support. In such a situation, hiring commercial launch services is not an option. Due to technical constraints and limitations on economies of scale, the development and operation costs...
..., will be relieved. The world’s main commercial launch providers are hoping to make up for the shortfall in GEO launches by offering launch services for these new LEO constellations with each launch likely to carry tens of satellites at a time. While...
... (albeit Norway’s Nammo is moving in the direction of a small indigenous launcher) a limited demand for national launch services because of a lack of national satellite manufacturing industries. Based on the evidence to date, the front-runners are...
... to raise another $300 million in 2021. In addition to hoping to provide launch services, Firefly was awarded a $93.3 million contract under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services programme to deliver science payloads to the Moon on its Blue Ghost...