... Industries has announced plans to cut launch costs by 50 percent by 2020, thus announcing a serious decision to enter the commercial launches market. At the same time, ILS – the main provider of Proton-M rockets – could potentially lose a 15 percent...
...- and a need - for additional action to define a regulatory scheme that reduces the political risk faced by the commercial sector while simultaneously upholding national obligations to the international legal system. On-orbit authority The window for...
... Industry Association, June 2016. See: https://brycetech.com/downloads/SIA_SSIR_2016.zip 6 “Start-Up Space: Rising Investment in Commercial Space Ventures”, Bryce Space and Technology (formerly The Tauri Group), January 2016. See: https://brycetech...
... to give legislators an analysis of the efficiency of the current system. Next, the Act retitled the ‘Office of Space Commercialization’, housed within the Department of Commerce, as simply the Office of Space Commerce. It also fleshed out the roles...
... kg) numbers are expected to drop due to launch delays. Launcher options In response to small satellite market needs, multiple commercial ventures around the world are developing small launchers in the hope of getting a share of the future launcher...
... Airlock from Nanoracks. Most recently, in January 2020, NASA awarded a US$140 million contract to Axiom to build a habitable commercial module to be attached to the ISS from 2024. These developments make it clear that NASA is rising to the challenge...