January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
... the growth of a local space industry with government support; or they hope to gain a commercial advantage by offering launch services within the same country as the satellite manufacturer, thus avoiding the burdens of export and international...
October 2019
Skyrora – building on British space heritage
... the field, potentially offering smaller and more cost-effective launchers and launch services. One of these, Edinburgh-based UK launch vehicle designer, manufacturer, and service operator Skyrora has already completed one successful suborbital test...
March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
... United States’ private space sector is robust and flourishing, not only in its most visible components, with launch service providers like SpaceX and Orbital ATK, but in all facets of space exploration and utilisation. This is largely...
November 2020
Walking on the Moon
... and we almost expect private industry to take a lead. This is now beginning to extend from commercial satellites and launch services to what is broadly referred to as the space exploration sector, which includes the classical science missions but...
06 March 2017
Virgin Galactic announces its new space venture - Virgin Orbit
... of people and enabling valuable applications of data from space through Virgin Orbit’s flexible, affordable, and reliable launch service.” Virgin Orbit will now become the third company in Virgin Group’s commercial space portfolio, Galactic Ventures...
15 October 2015
Hitchhikers no more: NASA picks 3 firms to launch cubesats
... if we only fly as secondary payloads,” said Garrett Skrobot, lead for the Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) mission for NASA’s Launch Services Programme. “These are still experimental satellites, but the technology they are employing...
