April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... disadvantages of each spaceport option, within the context of the expected European market for space launch. Recent commissioned analysis by Commercial Space Technologies Ltd (CST) for a review of European spaceport developments has shown that there...
16 July 2021
NASA's $25 billion FY2022 funding bill is approved
... companies to build their own and is assisting the effort by providing funding for initial studies of commercial space stations that could ultimately be used by NASA through Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). The agency expects to award ...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
...is looming over them and whose powerful momentum is about to change everything. Some say it is about commercial space. Some describe it as New Space versus Old Space. Some see it as a new gold rush led by the wealthy. It is neither and it is all. The...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... would never move forward without looking forward. As reusable rockets, 3D-printed engines, software-defined satellites and commercial space station supply missions become the norm, the industry is looking beyond the status quo. Indeed, it would...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... leave Earth is one our entire planet is facing as we get closer and closer to the goals shared by so many commercial space companies. But it is a decision that very few get a say in. Expansive dreams What would it do to humankind’s collective psyche...
September 2026
Towards a research roadmap for human reproduction beyond Earth
... their mission and come home. But as humanity prepares to establish a permanent presence on the Moon, build commercial space stations and seriously contemplate settlements on Mars, an entirely new set of questions emerges. Not simply how we exist...
