June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
... 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...
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...
