June 2017
Space economics - industry trends and space investing
... term business plans that have attracted early stage capital for company formations. In addition, early stage contract awards by organisations such as NASA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the US and others have...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... prejudices of the new cold war triumphing over reality? There is no doubt that the Russian space programme contracted greatly from the end of the 1980s, when it operated the Mir space station, launched satellites weekly...
July 2020
Key technologies for space exploration
... 2021. SNC will complete at least six missions for NASA under the Commercial Resupply Services 2 (CRS-2) contract, utilising Dream Chaser and an attached Shooting Star transport vehicle to carry critical supplies like food, water...
January 2021
Developing the economy of a space nation
... economy battered and bruised. The disease has affected many millions, with over 1.5 million succumbing. I myself contracted Covid-19 and it was so serious that I was nearly admitted to hospital. One member of my family had to be hospitalised and...
01 December 2014
Orion service module contract for Airbus
ESA announced a contract worth $490 million on 18 November 2014 for Airbus Defence and Space to manufacture the service modules for ...
15 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 8-15
... in us," said Walter Cugno, Vice President, Exploration and Science of Thales Alenia Space. “The signing of this latest contract represents the continued vote of confidence from a valued customer in our engineering and our facility that provides...
