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...
March 2026
Humanity – the potential of space
... reach industrial-scale production. That, however, is about to change. The emergence of commercial space stations promises a new wave of products via space-based manufacturing. Ultrapure fibre optics, advanced computer chips and innovative alloys are...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... durable or would more substantial inflatable structures such as those Bigelow Aerospace is using in its inflatable commercial space stations be a more suitable material? Would solar cell arrays, solar concentrators, or nuclear or radio isotope...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... resources utilisation can be contextualised into a broader discussion of expanding commercial activities in space. Many other commercial applications, such as commercial space stations, on-orbit servicing and on-orbit fuel depots may be approaching...
14 April 2021
SNC launches independent subsidiary to expand space interests
... the Dream Chaser spaceplane. Now, with an autonomous Dream Chaser launching as soon as 2022 and a commercial space station concept attracting headlines - not to mention ongoing satellite work, a propulsion business, and projects such as the...
05 May 2026
Europe at the edge of a new world
... fringes of what is now mainstream. A co-founder of the Space Frontier Foundation and an early advocate of commercial spaceflight, he was among those pushing the ideas of private launch, commercial space stations and reusable rockets long before they...
