February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
... critical path. US businessman Robert Bigelow, owner of the hotel chain Budget Suites of America and founder of commercial space company Bigelow Aerospace. Most of these projects have high commercial potential yet may also benefit from government...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... Technologies, based in Hokkaido, Japan, is building a small launcher comparable to those of Rocket Lab or PLD Space. Astroscale, a company based in Singapore but run by a Japanese entrepreneur, is planning to develop debris-monitoring satellites and...
April 2019
The changing economics of space
... satellite systems around the world. More recently, he has provided business development support for a number of smaller space companies seeking to grow their businesses. His latest role, with Infinite Orbits, involves both technical and business...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... in modernising and re-purposing Air Force and NASA infrastructure In 2016, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos announced that his space company Blue Origin had selected Florida as the site for the launch, manufacturing and support facilities for...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
... play. It is by no means certain that regulators would impose environmental restrictions on a powerful and lucrative private space company that might endanger the profitability of its mission. It seems that the law, on this occasion, would certainly...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
...the southeast corner of the UK. In addition, this mostly belongs to specific space companies (apart from the National Space Test Facility at Harwell, operated by RAL Space). There is a need for the development of manufacturing capacity to support the...
