April 2025
South Korea’s rising rocket star
... to “the creation of a new space for sustainable humanity”. It is all too easy to become ‘western-centric’ when it comes to NewSpace innovation, but Europe and America would do well to ‘look east’ from time to time. While there are...
April 2026
Future-building in space - sustainability as first principle
... we already have to set future generations on a sustainable trajectory. These assets include the capital and ambition of the NewSpace economy, rapid technological developments, the potential of policy and law, and the UDHR itself. The inclusion...
12 October 2015
Rocking the vision of a new space revolution with Rick Tumlinson at TEDxESA
... such activities as the stepping stones to human exploration and settlement of the solar system. He helped create the NewSpace movement that includes Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, and investors like Paul Allen and Larry Page of Google...
13 January 2021
Portugal envision building a spaceport on the Azores islands
... become a strong player in the space sector. “The Portuguese space agency is a new kid on the block. But NewSpace is an opportunity to put Portugal on another level of capabilities,” Ricardo Conde, President of the space agency said at the conference...
14 June 2021
G7 nations commit to the safe and sustainable use of space
...space (Saber Fallah & Tatiana Farcas), Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration (Natalia Larrea Brito & Charlotte Croison), Is NewSpace really so new? (Walter Peeters), The next ‘unthinkable’ – global disruption from a solar storm (Calogero...
03 September 2021
Anomaly causes rocket to explode on maiden flight
Firefly Aerospace declared the first test flight of its Alpha rocket an “anomaly” this week when the rocket exploded shortly after its launch from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California (September). According to an ...
