The global space industry is diversifying and maturing on many fronts, driven by many trends. The speed of innovation is increasing and the barriers to entry for providing solutions enabled or enhanced by space are rapidly being reduced. These are ...
Could the cost of sending people to orbit be reduced by about 1000 times within around 15 years using only proven technology? If so, this would revolutionise spaceflight and lead to a new era of space science and exploration, and to the development ...
As NASA, the European Space Agency and the space industry look to return to the Moon and to venture even further, we should be asking: what image of humanity do we want to project onto new space environments? Is it a narrow picture or an inclusive ...
Between the late 1950s and the late 1960s, humankind seemed poised to take an incredible leap forward, as the Space Age brought stunning technological achievements and captured the imagination of the world. Stephen Kostes explores how space ...
Like any new technology that has captured the imagination of market influencers and investors, the NewSpace industry is finding itself in the midst of an explosion of interest. We’ve seen this before in the halcyon days of the internet, during the ...
Few will have missed President Trump’s 2018 announcement of a US Space Force, the idea first launched with his Tweet, “Space Force all the way!” The initial plan would have pulled space functions owned by the Air Force, Navy and other military ...