29 September 2020
NanoAvionics launches second satellite for Lacuna Space’s growing IoT satellite constellation
.... For this latest mission, NanoAvionics partnered with Germany-based Exolaunch, which provided the deployer and launch services onboard a Soyuz-2 rocket. Despite the ongoing pandemic, NanoAvionics and Lacuna Space, both based at the UK’s Harwell...
12 January 2021
Skyrora reveal new UK-built vehicle in live test
... journey. Whilst a lot of the space news across the UK has focussed on the country’s move into providing launch services, which would mostly deploy satellites into fixed orbits, very little has been done to develop in-space...
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
...available on the unrestricted open market. These needed components, systems and other elements, including rocket engines or launch services, may be obtainable from governments or private companies, but are subject to licensing and transfer and export...
April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
... university project budgets are tight and often require state support. In such a situation, hiring commercial launch services is not an option. Due to technical constraints and limitations on economies of scale, the development and operation costs...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
..., will be relieved. The world’s main commercial launch providers are hoping to make up for the shortfall in GEO launches by offering launch services for these new LEO constellations with each launch likely to carry tens of satellites at a time. While...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... (albeit Norway’s Nammo is moving in the direction of a small indigenous launcher) a limited demand for national launch services because of a lack of national satellite manufacturing industries. Based on the evidence to date, the front-runners are...
