May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... from countries such as the Soviet Union. Starting in the 1990s, however, China began to provide launch services to foreign customers. Services were provided through China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC), a subsidiary of the China Aerospace...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... in February 2018 which became the first Chinese private launch provider to succeed in its first three launches to orbit this year. It is now building its Ceres rocket to offer rapid launch service for single payloads, while its Pallas rocket...
27 April 2018
Another milestone for the SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft
... that the SPACE DRONE™ will be sent into space by U.S based International Launch Services (ILS), but once there, the drone needs to reach a geostationary orbit in order to service ageing satellites. To do this, the SPACE DRONE will employ four...
22 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 15-22
... commission was tasked with determining whether Arianespace has a monopoly on global commercial launch services. However, as both SpaceX and ILS (International Launch Services) provide significant competition, the commission concluded that the global...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... Micro/Nano-Satellites Generation Orbit. It has set the ambition to operate their fast, flexible and dedicated launch service by 2016 in response to the fast growing Nano/Micro-Satellite market. The notable aspects of Generation Orbit is not...
April 2024
Planning, designing and delivering a spaceport
... towards the south to LEO. Andøya Spaceport in Norway opened for business on 2 November 2023, offering launch services to vehicles designed to deliver payloads of up to 1.5 tonnes, primarily using liquid fuel. Isar Aerospace will have exclusive...
