June 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
... space tourism (in contrast to the imminent suborbital space tourism that will be provided by companies such as Virgin Galactic); private re-supply of the International Space Station; lower-cost satellite delivery and possibly salvage or repair...
December 2014
Skolkovo and a new breed of Russian space startups
... new generation of commercial companies appeared: enterprises currently classified as ‘Space 2.0’. Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, began openly speaking about his plans of turning a profit on suborbital tourism. Space startups mushroomed...
June 2015
Re-usable rockets: a new breakthrough for suborbital research
... expensive Cold War technologies. Today, thanks to dedicated efforts by next generation reusable suborbital rocket firms like Virgin Galactic, XCOR Aerospace, and Blue Origin, the field is on the verge of a revolution in how we access space. It will...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
...; the Space Council of the World Economic Forum; George Washington University Space Policy Institute; SpaceX; Virgin Galactic; Swiss Space Systems (S3) of Payerne, Switzerland; National Institute of Advanced Studies of Bangalore, India; National and...
July 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
...companies and initiatives like the XPrize, SpaceShipOne, SpaceX, Skybox, O3b, ViaSat, Blue Origin, Stratolaunch/Viking, Virgin Galactic, etc. have embraced disruptive new space technology and reinvented the innovative nature of outer space enterprise...
August 2016
Smallsat launch strategy
... specifically tailored to the needs of small satellites. The industry recognised leaders include Rocket Lab, Firefly and Virgin Galactic - however, dozens of companies around the world are attempting to build similar types of vehicles. The promised...
