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...
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...
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...
September 2017
Engaging the private sector in space exploration
... spaceflight economy. ESA is promoting brainstorming activities with space and non-space actors in order to agree on potential ways forward and is seeking to establish marketable commercial space exploration initiatives and to boost the spill-over...
