September 2026
Can Starlab offer Europe a future in Earth orbit?
As the International Space Station nears retirement, commercial successors are racing to define the next era for low Earth orbit. At the 2026 European Space Economy Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, organised by The Economist magazine, Marshall Smith, CEO...
02 April 2021
SNC unveils plan to build its own commercial space station
..., last year Axiom Space became the first commercial company to announce it would be constructing its own station in low Earth Orbit that will serve as a home to microgravity experiments, critical space-environment materials testing, and private and...
05 November 2018
Astroscale secures $50 million to clean low Earth orbit
... achieve these exciting goals. Approximately 750,000 pieces of space debris over one centimeter in diameter are orbiting the Earth, threatening the safety of active spacecraft. Given this active risk of space debris currently...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
... mass of the rocket and the (effective) exhaust velocity out of the nozzle. A high delta-v is required to reach low Earth orbit (LEO) to remain in space. A number of non-rocket space launch methods have been proposed, but none has...
July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
...of the Dream Chaser® spaceplane, a multi-mission space utility vehicle capable of transporting cargo - and eventually crew - to low Earth orbit. But there is more to the company than this. As Thomas Crabb, Robert Richter and Martin Chiaverini explain...
January 2021
Asgardia’s project for a new module to expand Space Station
... past decade, the International Space Station partnership has continually addressed the future of research in - and exploitation of - low Earth orbit (LEO) beyond the lifetime of the ISS. At present, it seems likely that the Space Station will remain...
