June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
...we will deliver the Setup Stage in which the main contracts for the mission and for sales and marketing are put...will be looking to appoint a lead space agency to act as the contracting authority for the project and to provide the legal powers for the ...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
...(TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X). There is no major anchor tenancy contract but the twin Pleiades satellites have been funded by the ... intelligence community. Orbital Insights gathers its data through contracts with EO data owners and the start-up develops ...
April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
... to launch as rideshare on the large and well-established Soyuz launch vehicle, for which 21 vehicles have been contracted to launch between 32 and 36 satellites at a time, depending on the craft’s final design. However, at the same time, Virgin...
November 2018
Pole star rising
...already being taken by technology and the industry itself. ESA, acting on behalf of the European Commission, signed contracts with four consortia, including Poland’s Creotech Instruments, to build Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS...
September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... Brazilian Air Force is responsible for signing the contract with companies. The recent Brazilian Space Agency call... food, security etc. AEB is highly confident that at least one contract will be signed by the end of 2020. Infrastructure at Brazil’s ...
December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
... the OST – so a clear line between payment for services rendered versus materials owned must be defined. Restrictive contracts While the ethical framework provided by the OST is sound, it fails to adequately specify how these principles should...
