March 2016
Building Confidence and Reducing Risk in Space Resources Policy
...- 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...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... 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...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... 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...
January 2021
Asgardia’s project for a new module to expand Space Station
... 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...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
...the recent contract to SpaceX for the development of the Human Landing System (HLS); and ESA’s Commercial Partnerships and Commercial Lunar Mission Support Services (CLMSS) for the provision of lunar communications and navigation services. A European...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... and other combustible propellants, and the integration of airspace operations between general aviation, military operations and commercial spaceflight. All these challenges were discussed and plans put in place to satisfy the requirements of the FAA...
