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...
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 ...
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...
August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
... at how could we do shuttle 2.0. We were fortunate to have a small and strong team based in California. At that time the commercial space industry barely existed - it was the very early days of what we know today as ‘entrepreneurial...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
...the world. Non-traditional actors are contributing to a rapidly growing sector encompassing everything from suborbital space tourism to commercial space stations and even lunar landers. Key to this is the increasing number of companies from small and...
22 October 2021
Nanoracks announces plans to launch its orbital space station, Starlab, in 2027
...the first-ever free flying commercial space station in collaboration with Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin. Called Starlab, Nanoracks say the space station “will be a continuously crewed commercial platform, dedicated to conducting critical research...
