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...
17 December 2024
NASA seeks to continue human presence in orbit post ISS
...operating on a regular cadence is essential. The objectives will also guide the development of requirements for future commercial space stations that will support NASA’s missions, while reducing risk for human missions to Mars, preserving operational...
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...
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...
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...
March 2026
Lessons learned on the way to space
... allow innovation to take place in a controlled and safe fashion. In creating the legislation which ultimately became the Commercial Space Launch Act, the US Congress had the foresight to realise that if the rules and regulations applied to aircraft...
