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...
August 2016
National legislation provides incentives for private business
... create attractive conditions for space operators as they ease the potential financial (including insurance) burdens. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo craft alongside the signature feature of Spaceport America, the Gateway to Space building, which...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... up by some of the most eminent names in the commercial space industry (ie, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Moon Express and Virgin Galactic), steers and is a growing and powerful lobby in Washington. The question must be asked, how could a country curtail...
November 2016
Microgravity and space research: Bringing the commercial market into focus
... has transferred new technologies back to Earth much faster than might otherwise have been the case. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShip2 on an early test flight. Future space tourism craft like this are all vying to carry science...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... and barriers put in front of them to satisfy their dream. People like you. The successful test flight of Virgin Galactic s VSS Unity into the mesosphere on 26 July 2018 took the longdelayed project a step closer to putting tourists...
