October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... STEP-2’ and ESA’s new initiatives are taking the possibilities seriously. Commercial interests like Metalysis, Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Thales Alenia and SSTL are all looking at what might be possible. Planetary scientist Dr Katherine Joy...
July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
All human long-duration space missions to date have been relatively close to home. Now plans are underway to establish a Moon-orbiting platform that will act as a base for scientific research, missions to the Moon’s surface and eventually missions ...
February 2020
Aeroshells – from LEO to Mars
... trans-atmospheric transportation between LEO and Earth’s surface. NASA’s Mars InSight spacecraft in an assembly clean room at Lockheed Martin Space Systems. The back shell (grey cone) and heat shield (brown disc) form a protective enclosure...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... for a spaceport at Melness, near Tongue in Sutherland in the far North of Scotland, with interest from launch providers Lockheed-Martin and Orbex, although there is strong competition from sites at North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, and Unst...
July 2020
The four horsemen of space finance
... development for their larger multi-national enterprises. These are of course the larger strategic firms such as Lockheed Martin, Airbus, Boeing and Northrop Grumman. While this can be a good source of capital for companies, it also puts...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... face business uncertainty, supply chain disruptions and delays Most space infrastructure players (such as Airbus, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Thales) are aerospace & defence companies, and are therefore considered “essential” and...
