January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
... ACES stage equipped with a landing kit. The transportation architecture will be enabling for all other activities in cislunar space. However, the costs to emplace such an infrastructure are daunting. The easy answer is to assume that governments...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
... future in space is developing and utilising space resources. Space resources will anchor a robust economy in cislunar space (‘Creating the cislunar economy’, ROOM, Winter 2017). The closest and most accessible source of resources beyond Earth is the...
10 August 2021
NASA-funded commercial Moon mission to launch from New Zealand
... CAPSTONE mission to the Moon from Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand during the final quarter of 2021. CAPSTONE (Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment), which will aid NASA’s Artemis programme, is being...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... hand’ of competition and self-interest, and set in a true meritocracy, can enable Piketty’s forces of convergence. Building a cislunar infrastructure will not only generate enormous wealth; it will also create dozens of new markets and thousands...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... are just a few examples. Potential uses for cislunar space include lunar resource extraction, communication relays, intelligence ...to places like Mars or other celestial bodies. Embrace Cislunar Space Technology has advanced to a point where the ...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
... capability, which should in turn make space settlement both desirable and practical. Concept image of Orbital ATK’s cislunar habitat, based on its Cygnus spacecraft. Orbital is one of six US companies developing full-sized ground prototypes and...
