July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
... and manoeuvring, as well as launch) can be served by nitrous oxide, it has potential as a universal propellant for a wide range of commercial space applications. N2O/PMMA hybrid rocket motor capable of eight restarts. The HRM uses the hot exhaust...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
...Dean and was elected as President serving from 2011-2018. His publications cover articles on commercial space topics, space tourism and, inter alia, a book on Space Marketing (Kluwer, 2000) and an IAA Report on Suborbital Spaceflight (IAA, 2014). His...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
.... Finally, at the 2017 ICAO/UNOOSA Aerospace Symposium, the general points of interest for the commercial space sector - and within the space industry overall - were safety, transparency, harmonisation, and cooperation. These components are not just...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
... commercialisation but still at the mercy of governments. The question is what’s going to make commercial entities want to come to us to put a platform in space? KAVANDI It’s a good point. There are a couple of different aspects of what you’re saying...
July 2019
Next steps in human space exploration
...longer be the owners and operators of the LEO environment. I was a reluctant convert to commercial space flight, but now I travel the world to promote commercial space capabilities for low Earth orbit - Charlie Bolden So NASA made the decision to get...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... recreation. Realising that this would soon be an issue, the US introduced into US domestic law (via the Commercial Space Law Amendments Act 2004 and the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act 2015) two distinct categories of personnel engaged...
