September 2017
Engaging the private sector in space exploration
... in: ESA has just signed the first commercial partnership agreement with Space Applications Services (SpaceApps) to provide quick, easy and low-cost access to the Space Station in less than a year using its International Commercial Experiment Cubes...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
The mutually dependent paradigms of collaboration and competition are common in space applications such as communications, imaging and navigation, but the space exploration sector has historically remained the business of government agencies. Today,...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
...to the development of satellites and related technologies, as well as R&D activities in the fields of Space Applications, particularly Earth Observation, and Space and Atmospheric Sciences. IAE is responsible for the development of Brazil’s satellite...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
... all space applications for a reason that to my amazement is hardly ever discussed in popular accounts of space policy....School of Mines as part of a newly-created graduate programme in space resources. He holds a BS in Physics from Georgia Tech and ...
May 2017
Humanity is moving towards a new reality
... like it has been up to now. Activities will include a much wider range of operations, many different types of space applications, and the regulatory and ‘policing’ mechanisms will be considerably different. The problem is how does regulatory regime...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
..., we are competing with ICE Cubes (a public-private partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Belgium-based Space Applications Services) and Space Tango (a Kentucky, USA-based company that builds research and manufacturing systems into...
