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...
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...
19 March 2021
World's first commercial space debris removal demo set for launch
Satellite servicing firm Astroscale is getting ready to launch its ELSA-d mission – the world’s first commercial demonstration of space debris docking, capture and removal in lower earth orbit (LEO). This ground-breaking mission will launch ...
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...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... license to mine an asteroid. The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Office of Commercial Space (AST) does provide ‘payload reviews’ for objects to be launched into space by US carriers but FAA’s jurisdiction is limited to ‘launch’ and ‘re-entry...
