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...
June 2015
Promoting growth at geostationary orbit with a one-stop-shop
... the Wright brothers. I think we’ll see massive growth. What is the stimulus? What will the growth be? Elon Musk is talking about humanity being a multi-planetary society. People are talking about settlements on the Moon and...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... the Solar System with vibrant life. Europa, Mars, the asteroid colonies - but also, interstellar. As Elon Musk recommends, let’s put our eggs in many baskets. Still, like me, you’d probably hanker to do something to help the...
