13 January 2017
New patent granted to 3D printed hybrid rocket fuel engines for low cost access to space
...a new patented 3D printed fuel technology, that would allow the delivery of small satellites to orbits at possibly half the price of current launch costs. Based in Titusville, Florida, Rocket Crafters, Inc. is a development-stage company that intends...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... components and computers, was designed to be ‘NASA’s Next Generation Small Explorer’ framework for building small low-cost satellites with short missions. Like most technology viewed in retrospect, ‘small’ is relative. Triana weighed about the...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
... to mitigate our environmental impact on the planet. Government enthusiasm The development of new markets in high volume, low-cost satellite systems is extremely attractive The current UK government has retained this enthusiasm for space and is now...
September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
...growing Internet of Things (IoT), building a scalable network of small low-cost satellites to offer ubiquitous coverage to devices around the world via a secure low-cost, low band-width connectivity platform designed for machine-to-machine (M2M) data...
12 February 2019
Fleet Space Technologies hits major milestone with Project Galaxy
...) startup Fleet Space Technologies today announced the major success of Project Galaxy, registering a million devices to its low-cost satellite network in less than 24 hours, with an additional two million devices and counting on its waiting list...
March 2016
Space Mining – the Reality of Tomorrow?
... and over again this could also be used to deploy solar power satellites. Likewise, if space mining enterprises can develop low cost satellites that could be produced at lower cost and in high volume via 3D printing this could be quite significant...
