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...
October 2015
The Global Space Governance Study – A new regulatory framework for New Space?
... at the many challenges that face the world of space commerce and security in the 21st century and then see what ... need for interdisciplinary consultation and interchange between the space commerce world and the space lawyers and policy makers. It...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
.... Next, the Act retitled the ‘Office of Space Commercialization’, housed within the Department of Commerce, as simply the Office of Space Commerce. It also fleshed out the roles and responsibilities of that Office, essentially mandating that it work...
