April 2019
Building the UK’s first spaceport
... towards initial test flights. The UK’s strategic priority is to become one of the best places in the world to do space business, so the goal is to establish a spaceport plus commercial launch and spaceflight services in a timeframe which gives the...
October 2020
Open Source Space
...small satellites and open source thinking is creating a springboard for the development of a community-based approach For space businesses to be sustainable, the enabling technology needs to be performant and large enough to support payloads that are...
October 2020
Pandemic impacts - the state of the ground segment
... will be changed for the better as a result of the pandemic The business of space is hard. Failures will happen. It is imperative, therefore, that space businesses transition from a ‘growth at all costs’ attitude, which has prevailed in recent...
April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... research tells us customers want an average of five years more use from their satellites. Originally the Effective Space business plan was de-orbiting but research showed that life extension was the main market, with de-orbiting...
14 April 2021
SNC launches independent subsidiary to expand space interests
... of NASA’s Glenn Research Center in 2019. As executive vice president, Kavandi was placed in charge of “all aspects of SNC’s space business,” according to the company’s official announcement. In an exclusive interview with ROOM in March, Kavandi and...
19 November 2020
Agreement to accelerate commercial space growth
...'s detailed knowledge of downstream applications, we can offer customers greater choice from a wide-reaching, comprehensive range of space business connections and expertise." "We are pleased to start our partnership with TerraMetric," added...
