15 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 8-15
... lander developer, and has won a Venture Class Launch Services contract from NASA last year. Thales Alenia Space ...has announced that the first milestone under its NASA Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-2) contract on cargo delivery to the ISS has been...
05 March 2019
New British spaceflight company set for launch
... 1, Black Arrow is confident that it will be able to provide a unique, low-cost, flexible and highly reliable launch service to support regional and International satellite markets. In a departure from established practice, Black Arrow is planning...
18 January 2021
Virgin Orbit rocket reaches orbit for first time
... capacity of the rocket, this technique allows the LauncherOne system to be the world’s most flexible and responsive launch service — flying on short notice and from a wide variety of locations to access any orbit. For today’s picture-perfect...
November 2019
The economic promise of space
... has one of the world’s fastest growing space programmes with continuing focus on traditional business models, such as launch services and satellites, while investing strongly in small and medium businesses and enterprises. India’s space agency (ISRO...
June 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...10 per cent (the lowering of corporate risk); included in the production of space rockets and satellites are launch services (vertical integration). However, all space sector companies are large, with little competition. So there is little motivation...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... centre and Mithi River, Mumbai, India. They suggested that US launch services were at a disadvantage as they were being wiped out of competition for the launch of micro and nanosatellites. Similar concerns had also been expressed at a US hearing...
