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...
April 2019
The changing economics of space
... by entrepreneurial spacecraft operators, looking to provide communications to end users at low cost. This new commercial space environment focuses on cost minimisation and fast production processes. It ably demonstrates the so-called ‘NewSpace...
April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... the LSP’s business model. These will increase the probability of creating a viable commercial spaceport that will meet the evolving needs of the commercial space launch industry. Well known launch sites such as Vandenberg and Cape Canaveral...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
... to do the same. Today, we can send commercial products to the space station for a fee and Nanoracks has already submitted the...just this summer, NASA announced that they are planning commercial space platforms, so over the next few years we will ...
