September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... enough to change the legal and economic environment if we do not change the way that national space companies look at the space sector. The space industry is not static. It is moving from a sector where the Government was the main institution...
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...
September 2023
Satellite manufacturing - building to size, speed and security
... them directly. We positioned ourselves at a nexus which the space industry needed, in that we build the satellite infrastructure that enables other space companies to explore space. Until 2020, Terran Orbital was a small CubeSat manufacturer making...
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 ...
14 January 2019
New steam-powered asteroid hopper that could run 'forever'
... that is exactly what scientists from the University of Central Florida have been working on in collaboration with a private space company – Honeybee Robotics based in California – and it works remarkably well. Called WINE, which stands for the World...
