April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... both horizontal and vertical launch operations). Each category has different commercial implications and investment requirements, leading to a completely different set of infrastructure, equipment, and regulations. Vertical launch spaceports, such...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
... cultures, citizens of far-away countries and carriers of different mentalities; and we have different financial potentials for investment in space exploration. Elon Musk (left) and Jeff Bezos. However, we do have some things in common: just like...
October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
..., co-founded the Space Frontier Foundation, and was a founding board member of the X-Prize. He currently runs SpaceFund, an investment firm for space startups. His EarthLight Foundation and New Worlds Institute support frontier enabling research...
October 2025
High-altitude platforms - the search for an optimised legal framework
... structures and capabilities in a manner redolent of the impact that Soviet development of Sputnik in the 1950s had on American investment in NASA and the Moon programme. HAO regulation seems less likely to be based on existing space treaty law...
23 February 2018
UK to host world’s first commercial deep-space communications station
... to borrow their deep-space antennas. Now, however, after a sizeable investment from the UK’s Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership and a later, smaller investment from ESA, Goonhilly Earth Station located on the Lizard peninsula...
06 November 2019
UK Space Agency confirms £7.35 million funding to support small satellite launch from Cornwall
... company’s launch activities helping to attract new business and investment opportunities, as well as inspire the next generation of ...of Transport, George Freeman said: "This latest investment in Spaceport Cornwall and Virgin Orbit is the exciting...
