April 2018
Developing Mars
... length of stay on Mars. Legal certification The US regulatory environment is becoming more supportive of commercial space ventures. For example, the American Space Commerce Free Enterprise Act of 2017 aims to establish a certification authority for...
10 August 2021
NASA-funded commercial Moon mission to launch from New Zealand
... and Navigation Experiment), which will aid NASA’s Artemis programme, is being overseen by Advanced Space LLC, a leading commercial space solutions company. Launching on an Electron rocket and deploying from Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform...
08 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 1-8.
...and quality assurance software. This diversity is a testament to the vast reach and influence of the rapidly growing commercial space sector.” Calspan, a world-class independent engineering services and testing company has been supporting initiatives...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
.... This will require greater funding for FAA/AST, which the bill supports. With the expansion of commercial space utilisation, the absence of appropriate regulation will result in de facto regulation of industry by increasing costs and eventually...
October 2016
Unlocking the potential of annular ion engines
... levels for NASA science missions (what’s next after NEXT?) and for Earth orbital national security space and commercial space applications. It is also well suited for human exploration and operations applications being scalable to 300 kW and...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
...’s achievements are largely driven by its low price advantage, a weak point for China’s commercial space sector.” “Competition with India for commercial space launches may be inevitable and the most urgent action needed for China is expand its...
