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...
November 2016
Turning the Solar System into our backyard
... and entrepreneurs - consisting of close to 80 representatives from 43 different space and non-space organisations to witness first-hand the emergence of the commercial space sector and Disrupt Space’s role as the global hub for these activities. The...
November 2019
Strategic role of government in space commercialisation
... “the return of humans to the Moon for long-term exploration and utilisation”, and “the growth of a US commercial space sector that supports US needs, is globally competitive, and advances US leadership in the generation of new markets and innovation...
October 2021
Congested, contested... under-regulated and unplanned
... environment is increasingly “Congested, Contested and Competitive”. Although it was always recognised that commercial space activities contributed to the “three Cs”, the implicit focus from a US military perspective has always been on the extent...
October 2025
What future for UK human spaceflight?
... transformative phase. With multiple UK-born astronauts active within the European Space Agency (ESA) and new opportunities emerging in the commercial space sector, Britain appears poised to move from a peripheral participant to an active contributor...
