October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
... Station, the highest power spacecraft currently in orbit are at the 20kW mark. With the approaching Lunar Gateway mission (50kW), and ESA’s Mars Sample Return mission (40kW), both scheduled for launch within the...
March 2021
Building SLS - a contractual odyssey
... and had predicted as much. Theoretically, this would have required Bridenstine to notify Congress of the overrun. Lunar Gateway (above) formed a key part of NASA’s return-to-the-Moon plans but the agency announced in 2019 that...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
... Curcio is a space and satcom industry expert and longtime China watcher based in Hong Kong. He is founder of Orbital Gateway Consulting and Senior Affiliate Consultant at Euroconsult, where his areas of focus includes the global satcom industry...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
... to build a lunar base. This was most likely prompted by the planned American return to the Moon, the Gateway project and then the Artemis Accords. Unlike the International Space Station (ISS), which was designed...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... Curcio is a space and satcom industry expert and longtime China watcher based in Hong Kong. He is founder of Orbital Gateway Consulting and Senior Affiliate Consultant at Euroconsult, where his areas of focus includes the global satcom industry...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... involved in missions such as ExoMars, Mars Sample Return, the International Habitation Module (I-HAB) part of the Lunar Gateway, the future European Large Logistic Lander (EL3) and the Columbus module at the International Space Station...
