13 December 2023
Orbex awarded £3.3 million as part of ESA initiative
..., Orbex, has been awarded £3.3 million in funding from the UK Space Agency (UKSA) as part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) 'Boost!' initiative, part of ESA’s Commercial Space Transportation Services and Support programme designed to further the...
March 2015
On-orbit satellite servicing, insurance and lessons of Palapa B2 and Westar 6
...align with the overall risk management approach of the satellite owner The insurance market for the commercial space industry is global. Satellite owners, manufacturers, launch services providers, insurance brokers, and underwriters, are all involved...
March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
... staggering. However, the risks faced by business managers in the commercial space world do not end there. Junk in heavily used orbits In...Graphics, Inc. announced the establishment of the Commercial Space Operations Center, which plans to offer paid ...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... facility in West Texas, the State will boast four commercial space facilities in the next three to four years. Collaboration ... but together they can help change the face of the commercial space industry. A spaceport’s strength and its role as a ...
June 2017
Space economics - industry trends and space investing
... in that process and some of the protectionism surrounding jobs being lessened, but also because ultimately the commercial space sector will become an even more mainstream topic for citizens. Increasingly the constituencies in countries around the...
November 2017
Delivering a revolutionary reduction in space launch costs
...need for the kind of revolutionary leap forward in propulsion that SABRE represents In the space domain, within the current explosion of commercial space launch companies and concepts we see a number of possible applications where SABRE class engines...
