July 2019
Next steps in human space exploration
... of Space Policy & Regulations, UAE Space Agency), Koichi Wakata, (Vice-President of JAXA) and George Whitesides (CEO of Virgin Galactic). It was moderated by Anu Ojha, Director of the UK National Space Academy. Anu Ojha Fifty-eight years ago...
July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... is the growing reality of participating in space tourism. Blue Origin, SpaceX, Bigelow Aerospace, Space for Humanity and Virgin Galactic (which recently launched the first woman, Beth Moses, into space on a commercial spacecraft) are just a few...
October 2019
Skyrora – building on British space heritage
The private launch vehicle market is currently dominated by a few big names like SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Rocket Lab but with more than 10,000 smallsats predicted to be launched worldwide over the next 10 ...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... and applications and their terrestrial counterparts. The endeavours of companies such as Blue Origin, SpaceX and Virgin Galactic symbolise the increasing growth of the commercial space sector, an industry segment that is opening its previously...
30 July 2015
SpaceShipTwo crash: dramatic testimony by Peter Siebold could offer new clues for space tourism safety
The tragedy at Virgin Galactic was just described in harrowing detail by the pilot who survived it. It can also offer us a valuable look at improving ...
March 2015
Supplanting the state: rewards and risks
... a governmental monopoly on space travel and exploration. Seeing that physical satellite size was shrinking, Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004 in anticipation of the need for much smaller, low-cost systems for launching these smaller satellites...
