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...
May 2024
The universe in acrylics - an artist’s passion
... acrylic paint. She has a degree in creative writing, which she applied in marketing and communications roles for space companies such as QinetiQ and technology start-up Celestia Technologies Group. She exhibits and sells her work...
04 September 2017
Secret spaceplane set for another launch
... V rockets. Now the OTV will hitch a lift on a Falcon 9 rocket, showing that SpaceX is surpassing its private space company roots to multitask as a military launch provider too - a contract that is no doubt a big deal and a very profitable one...
08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
...auspicious event. The OHB Group – one of the three leading space companies in Europe – signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Blue... that is designed to deliver payloads for governments, companies, universities, non-profits, and individuals at an ...
