October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... giving an update on a crazy project I was helping lead to save the Russian Mir space station and turn it into the world’s first commercial space station. Walt Anderson and I had signed a lease on the aging facility with the...
05 February 2016
SpaceX' Ambitious Plans Discussed at Commercial Space Transportation Conference
... was stated by the company's president Gwynne Shotwell in a speech at the Federal Aviation Administration’s annual Commercial Space Transportation Conference on February 3, 2016. “It’s a really interesting year for us,” Shotwell said. “We’ve had the...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
... plans for a base at the South Pole of the Moon from the mid 2030s onwards. Consequently, from a commercial space perspective, new opportunities will constantly unfold. It is our belief that the market for lunar surface habitats...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
When US President Obama signed a new law into existence in November 2015, it signalled a new direction for commercial space exploration and exploitation. The bill that was signed had ambitious beginnings in the US House of Representatives. That ...
March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
... resources utilisation can be contextualised into a broader discussion of expanding commercial activities in space. Many other commercial applications, such as commercial space stations, on-orbit servicing and on-orbit fuel depots may be approaching...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... property rights is not just controversial, it is an act diametrically against the former state-led use of space in favour of the new commercial space industry. The extension of legal rights, which may or may not violate international law, has armed...
