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 ...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... NASA and ESA, particularly expanding the use of partnerships with industry to advance commercial space exploration in LEO. In the US, the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) programme, which gave birth to the Cargo Resupply Services...
September 2026
Can Starlab offer Europe a future in Earth orbit?
... was that Starlab is already oversubscribed. “We’re about close to 140 percent right now on our commercial space,” he told ROOM. Commercial space has no shortage of confident forecasts and such figures should be scrutinised carefully. The collapse...
