October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
... in promoting and formalising norms of behaviour in the air domain that have fostered and accelerated air commerce. To accelerate space commerce in the short term, the US government should increase targeted research and development for specific space...
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
... Hohmann transfer orbits which could “because of their advantages in fuel efficiency create natural corridors of movement and commerce”. Other ‘strategic narrows’ include the geostationary belt and the Earth-Moon Lagrange Points. Just as Mahan...
July 2014
The hypersonic grail: advances at DARPA, AFRL and beyond
... plummet by more than an order of magnitude to less than $1,000/ kg. A likely result would be the creation of true space commerce, which might include such businesses as orbital space tourism (in contrast to the imminent suborbital space tourism that...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
... the scientific community on an outsourced basis for planetary science. As we have seen with the terrestrial economy, all commerce is being converted to ones and zeros, including even manufactured items. It is clear that in-space bandwidth will have...
09 April 2019
US space chiefs justify ambitious exploration plans
... segments like robotics, additive manufacturing, satellite servicing, space tourism, debris removal and resource mining.” The Commerce Department expects to take the lead role in space situational awareness and space traffic management as Earth...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
... system ITAR, the sale of components outside of the US still requires licensing through the US Department of Defence or Department of Commerce. Because of this, Russian companies are faced with the issue of the import ratio for components used...
