April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
... under the Trump administration, which viewed China as an adversary and focused on maintaining US dominance in space. China has invested billions in space programmes under President Xi and has made enormous progress to catch up with the US and Russia...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
... put capital behind this category and seems committed to ensuring that the industry develops. Earlier in 2017 it invested US$29 million in Planetary Resources and also agreed to fund a spacecraft for Deep Space Industries under certain unspecified...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... has no significant heritage in launch and there is no notable infrastructure to build from. This means that a substantial amount of investment would be needed. When combined with the heightened transport costs associated with any island, the results...
January 2021
Asgardia’s project for a new module to expand Space Station
...Station which, in November 2020, marked two decades of continuous occupation. During the first Asgardia Space Science & Investment Conference, held in Germany in October 2019, a project to add a new commercially procured docking module to the ISS was...
04 October 2018
Space cluster launch takes UK beyond the final frontier
... indeed the UK. This is a sector which underpins industries worth more than £250bn to the UK economy. “Our £4 million investment in a new National Space Propulsion Test Facility at Westcott will allow companies and academia to test and develop...
May 2018
Taxation of outer space: a next step for space exploration?
... there is a legality to this action, proving that the purpose of such structures is space exploration, benefiting all humanity. Investment in such projects would allow a certain or general tax deduction providing that the companies allow free access...
