March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
... is a veritable fount of clever solutions that benefit the planet There is also an opportunity to offer a reduced cost of implementation for government programmes due to the advantages of an on-demand, shared-access architecture. Specific examples...
April 2024
The promise of space-based LiDAR
... that have developed high-resolution imaging satellites at substantially lower costs and with greater agility than government efforts. Companies like RapidEye reduced costs and improved scalability by introducing the first commercial constellation...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
...close to 100 educational institutions around the world are participating in the CubeSat revolution. The reduced cost is driving innovation in supporting technologies, including telecommunications, (opto) electronics, materials, sensors, fluidics, and...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
...SpaceX, started by Elon Musk with an initial goal of reducing cost per pound of cargo to orbit to $1,000.11 This figure ...Defense from the 1970s–90s.12 Those studies pointed to launch costs as the constraint holding back the utilization and exploration of...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
... of missions to a Mars Base Camp is not focused on minimalism, and could arguably be reduced in scope or bypass certain cis-lunar steps in order to reduce cost. However, the mission sequence is intended to be executed without any substantial increase...
April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
...are retired at the end of their useful lifetimes to reduce the potential for collisions or interference with other spacecraft in ... advanced capabilities beyond those of the MEP). To reduce costs, the MEPs lack their own rendezvous and docking sensors...
