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...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... can be connected, although challenges remain in providing more than just data transmissions. If we add to this the growth in cislunar activities, the growth in micro-launcher markets and other novel developments based upon the use of existing...
December 2014
Asteroid Redirect Mission: preparing for Mars in deep space
... near-Earth asteroid (NEA) in the area around the Moon. As cislunar space is similar to what a spacecraft would experience on the trip to ... SLS will launch the astronauts in the Orion into cislunar space, allowing Orion to rendezvous and dock with the...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... assembly and propellant transfer to enable a subsonic air-launched RLV to form the first leg of a fully reusable cislunar transportation system. Details of one such in-space transportation architecture are shown in Figure 7, [4]. Air-launch offers...
September 2017
Plans for high-speed lunar rovers
...www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2017/20170309-nasa-iss-partners-cislunar-station.html. [Accessed: 16 03 2017]. 2 C. M. E. Utrilla, “Asteroid-COTS: Developing the cislunar economy with private public partnerships,” Space Policy, vol. http://dx.doi...
April 2024
Unlocking the NewSpace economy through space-based solar power
... revolutionised: not design for de-orbit, but design for maintenance, for upgrades, providing the blueprint for a cislunar circular economy. An SPS asset would also need security, including cybersecurity, typical of any terrestrial Critical National...
