April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... been frozen and the newest squad of cosmonauts is already training to fly it. For Orel to reach the Lunar Gateway - the international project to replace the ISS - it will require a new heavy-lift launcher, the design of which...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... but the plausibility of the impending lunar mission within a context of a renewed global focus on the Moon’s importance as a gateway for moving humanity into the solar system, provides a contemporary backdrop to explore the material practice...
July 2020
The four horsemen of space finance
... finance. Essentially these are micro investments from typically small investors. You can think of a public company as a gateway to crowdfunding in the sense that theoretically anyone can buy shares in as little as one share denominations. However...
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...
