01 April 2025
Who Owns Outer Space?
...the Kosmos 1408 satellite by a “powerful military [demonstrating] a capability that everyone already knew it possessed”; and Elon Musk’s apparent desire to control “large swaths of Earth’s most desirable orbits”. At what point does SpaceX “exceed the...
01 April 2025
The New World on Mars - What we can Create on the Red Planet
...author embeds himself in his work). In supporting Elon Musk’s well-publicised aim to make humankind an interplanetary species, Zubrin goes ...as far as to boast: “I know Musk, and I played a role… in helping to convince him ...
December 2014
Skolkovo and a new breed of Russian space startups
... his plans of turning a profit on suborbital tourism. Space startups mushroomed in the Mojave Desert. SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, became a world-famous company. Until July 2011, when the Skolkovo space cluster was created, the...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... of the frontier of space. Nothing speaks to this more than the announcements by Richard Branson at Virgin and Elon Musk of SpaceX that they are funding hundreds of satellites, to extend the Internet backbone to low Earth orbit and...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... in 2010, when a private company first successfully launched a round-trip space flight. Commercial innovation in space Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies (“SpaceX”), founded in 2002, made history in December 2010 when it became the first (and...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... company to suspend operations until mid-2015. At the same time, in 2010, SpaceX, headed by ambitious CEO Elon Musk, presented its Falcon 9 launch rocket to the market. This rocket was created as the result of SpaceX’s participation...
