October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
...the world. Non-traditional actors are contributing to a rapidly growing sector encompassing everything from suborbital space tourism to commercial space stations and even lunar landers. Key to this is the increasing number of companies from small and...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... to detach from the ISS to operate as a free-flying commercial space station after the ISS is deorbited. Private space stations It was not NASA that first thought of private commercial space stations. There were many science fiction writers and movie...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... ISS’ imminent demise - due to its age, maintenance requirements and expensive upkeep - and its replacement with a commercial space station. Though the prospect of the ISS’ end shakes me, I’m left wondering what would happen if we didn’t replace...
17 December 2024
NASA seeks to continue human presence in orbit post ISS
...clear path forward as NASA transitions from the International Space Station (ISS) to a new era of commercial space stations,” said Robyn Gatens, director of the ISS and acting director of commercial spaceflight. “Low Earth orbit will remain a hub for...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... would never move forward without looking forward. As reusable rockets, 3D-printed engines, software-defined satellites and commercial space station supply missions become the norm, the industry is looking beyond the status quo. Indeed, it would...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... there giving an update on a crazy project I was helping lead to save the Russian Mir space station and turn it into the world’s first commercial space station. Walt Anderson and I had signed a lease on the aging facility with the intention...
