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...
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...
March 2016
Mining outer space may be cool but is it legal?
... regulations to facilitate asteroid mining. [3] The announcement further signalled that Luxembourg was interested in directly investing in asteroid mining companies. Luxembourg hopes to attract asteroid mining companies to establish a presence there...
