March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
... activities steering committee. The revision of the 2007 Launchers Exploitation Declaration for the exploitation phase of Ariane 6, Vega C and their evolutions will be applicable for a period running until the end of 2035; additionally, the Guiana...
March 2021
Eyes on the prize
... the Satellite Applications Catapult. Following a PhD in remote sensing, working on a NASA Mars satellite, Sam joined the VEGA Group. He held senior strategy roles in Finmeccanica, started and successfully exited a startup in the logistics sector and...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
... Applications Catapult. Following a PhD in remote sensing and involvement with a NASA Mars satellite, Sam joined the VEGA Group. He held senior strategy roles in Finmeccanica, started and successfully exited a start-up in the logistics sector and...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
... of the Soyuz rocket at the Kourou launch site in French Guiana appear to be numbered, as European customers move to Vega C, Ariane 6 and SpaceX. Similarly, there is project, but not programmatic cooperation, with China: a French experiment on Chang...
January 2023
Clearing space junk from orbit
... ClearSpace-1, aims at demonstrating the complete value chain of debris removal by capturing and deorbiting an ESA-owned object - a Vega Secondary Payload Adapter (VESPA) left in orbit in 2013 and now roaming at about 700 km altitude. The VESPA...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... and was indeed the first to launch commercial enterprise efforts in this direction. He founded Bigelow Aerospace in Las Vegas, Nevada, and managed to obtain a license for the Transhab inflatable structures technology developed by NASA. This new...
