01 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest
... were added to SpaceX' Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract in December 2015. The report states that those missions ...provided to NASA at no cost. The overall cost of the CRS contract was $1.7 billion, already paid to SpaceX as of late March, ...
June 2015
Training space tourists to fly to the ISS at the Gagarin Centre
... they fit certain criteria (the medical criteria being most important) and as long as they sign an appropriate contract with Roscosmos (a.k.a. the Russian Federal Space Agency) or an organisation in the space sector that is approved by Roscosmos. The...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... of martian bread. Notional subaqueous dome at Omaha Crater - rough geometry, titanium/ ETFE construction, 300 m scale. Mission contracts - room and board At Omaha Crater anything that can be grown or manufactured in the domes or ISRU plants can...
September 2019
Extending the life of geostationary orbit satellites
... completely privately and will be starting its commercial life extension service in GEO in 2020. MEV-1’s initial service contract is for five years of docked life extension for Intelsat, the world’s largest commercial satellite operator. Likewise...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
..., Bishop is largely self-funded by Nanoracks. In terms of revenue, the airlock has already paid for itself in signed contracts, which we will be announcing soon. ISSNanoracks has booked deployment of eight small satellites as well as the company...
February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
... liability paradigm towards risk-based liability. IOS may also affect certain specific features of a space insurance contract, putting the insurer more in control of risk exposure. At a minimum, there would be the possibility of the IOS vehicle...
