April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... notably, it is much cheaper to give a space tourist from Europe a round-trip plane ticket to visit one of the United States spaceports than spend time and money developing spaceport infrastructure and applying for spaceplane certification in Europe...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
...service research - developed, serviced and used in collaboration with commercial and international partners. The point is, the United States and much of the global community experienced weak or inconsistent economic growth - and all the social issues...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
... fighting domain’ after President Donald Trump announced at the beginning of the summer that he had directed the United States Defense Department to create a ‘Space Force’ as the sixth branch of the US military. The President explained that: “We are...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
...lot about billionaire space entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe, most people have limited...launch and satellite manufacturing, respectively. Given most start-ups’ have state heritage, these companies tend to be less global and have initially ...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... scale at this time “Ultimately this is going to be a huge public-private partnership. And I think that’s how the United States was established. And many other countries round the world, as a public-private partnership. So I think that’s probably...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... falling, commercial human spaceflight is poised to lift off. And, arguably, there’s a new lunar race on, as China, the United States and a clutch of private companies compete to carry cargo and astronauts back to the Moon. So, when it comes to human...
