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,...
April 2026
Future-building in space - sustainability as first principle
... a spacefaring civilisation. When the topic of sustainability comes up in space sector settings, it is usually in reference to orbital debris, space traffic management or space applications that support development and security goals around the world...
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 ...
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...
