June 2022
Patent protection for space manufacturing
... cropped up from time to time for decades, but has not evolved at any great pace despite the space sector becoming increasingly privatised and commercialised. However, it can be expected that businesses will increasingly call for legal...
29 September 2022
UK gives space junk clearance missions priority funding
... systems, climate change monitoring, financial transactions and weather forecasting.” Orbital congestion and space debris is one of the biggest challenges facing the global space sector and there are estimated to be more than 130 million pieces...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... satellite communications systems, have been deliberately hidden for most of our ‘Global Space Age’. Seventy years of techno-industrial competition in the global space sector has been known to only those inside it and to liberal arts and humanities...
01 August 2023
Report predicts continued growth of smallsat market
... Alexandre Najjar. "Nonetheless, smallsats still represent a significant capability-building opportunity for new entrants in the space sector, with the conflict in Ukraine spotlighting the merits and value of commercial satcom and Earth observation...
11 June 2018
Aerospace company Orbital ATK bought by Northrop Grumman
...who regularly fly cargo resupply missions to the International Space Station has been purchased by Northrop Grumman in a ...and not one that will reduce competition in the defence and space sectors said Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush. “Northrop tends to ...
December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... studies were commissioned to explore increased synergy between the energy and space sectors and assess how the space sector, and in particular EO programmes, can aid the energy sector with existing and new products. The needs of the energy...
