November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... space hardware is designed, manufactured and tested to the highest standards. At the time of writing, a launch-plus-one-year rate for a proven launch vehicle and medium-to-large sized comsat varies between about 6.5 and 7.5 percent, while rates...
15 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 8-15
... not yet seen its first flight, but if all goes well, the first Planet launch using Electron small launch vehicle can happen as early as the second quarter of 2017. Aside from Planet, Rocket Lab also has...
28 July 2021
Bezos offers $2 billion in incentives for NASA lunar lander contract
... Heavy, SLS, Vulcan, and New Glenn. The value of being able to fly on many different launch vehicles cannot be over-stated. Launch vehicle flexibility is a massive overall risk reduction for both initial and sustaining operations. It decouples any...
March 2015
Chasing comets together: the Vega project in the USSR and beyond
... participate in our projects and in turn invited Soviet scientists to work on NASA projects. Now, Russia must provide launch vehicles for European projects for the chance to participate in just one or two experiments, or to install its own equipment...
November 2016
Moon or Mars - NASA’s next logical step?
...list of technologies it deems essential for a journey to Mars which include - ground operations, a heavy-launch vehicle, crew capsule, a deep-space transit vehicle with high-efficiency in-space propulsion and power, protection from radiation, optical...
January 2020
Commercialising space exploration and development
... without astronauts. In fact, we have funding for a multi-year effort to work on upper stage re-purposing with a variety of launch vehicle providers. This really opens the door to true exploration at far lower cost. Following the study, we announced...
