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...
17 July 2017
New company seeks to shake-up satellite launch industry
... speaking last week at a hearing on promoting partnerships between commercial space in Washington, DC, Tim Ellis Relativity’s CEO said that ... launch service and changing the way things get to space. Altogether, we made significant progress in the last...
03 March 2025
Blue Ghost lander operations underway on lunar surface
...). The Texas-based company became only the second commercial space company to land on the Moon after its robotic...the tone for the future of exploration across cislunar space as the first commercial company in history to achieve a fully successful soft...
19 June 2020
New US-UK agreement boosts UK’s spaceport plans
...the first ever launch into space from British soil. This is a key moment for our commercial space industry, and I look ...towards US companies launching from UK spaceports. The commercial space sector already represents hundreds of millions of dollars...
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...
