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...
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...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... age of the state leading the way in scientific and technological development is ending - and the age of private commercial firms just beginning. Multinational corporations and billionaires are operating in tandem and outside of the direct oversight...
September 2017
Engaging the private sector in space exploration
...Station in less than a year using its International Commercial Experiment Cubes service. ‘ICE Cubes’ could allow access...potential ways forward and is seeking to establish marketable commercial space exploration initiatives and to boost the spill-over ...
