March 2018
Shifting lines and new horizons in Earth observation markets
... data, cloud, etc.) in order to deal with the increasing amount of space data. In this context, high performance commercial imagery already plays a key role when intelligence procedures impede the sharing of intelligence produced by national systems...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... for customers of small launchers and/or suborbital human flights. Such a spaceport would be expected to serve a growing number of commercial customers, bring money to the local economy and increase local employment. These reasons, and the potential...
September 2019
Extending the life of geostationary orbit satellites
...very large space telescopes, manned Mars transports with multi-hundred kilowatt solar arrays and large commercial communications platforms. The MEV is also capable of providing clients with additional services including close inspections, inclination...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... rare-metal mines to the mines of the California Gold Rush. Mars mining prospects are speculative, but commercial ore is to be expected. Prospects and mining proposals require some explanation, so we expand on this final analogy below. Martian...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
... hardware, and the contract is based on my terms and conditions, then I consider that a commercial contract. Commercial laboratories Our biggest project to date is a commercial airlock called Bishop, which is five times the size of the airlock on the...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
...as a collective have been in LEO for a number of years, and not all of them are from commercial operators. An examination of commercially available data shows that most of these constellations are operated by companies in the United States, but there...
