June 2020
Saving Earth – time for a new cooperative framework
...planet (lower photo). Building a cooperative framework This is where the proposed new space legal system and cooperative agreement among space agencies and commercial space companies comes into play. It is the author’s opinion that a new entity, such...
29 August 2018
New national launch record for China
... suborbital rocket. Hoping to fly a little higher is Landspace. Landspace, which became the first private Chinese commercial space company to sign a launch contract with a foreign customer (GOMSpace), is set to launch its first rocket, named Zhuque...
22 October 2019
Bezos announces Blue Moon partnership for lunar landing
... founder Jeff Bezos announced at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Washington DC today (Tuesday) that his space company is to head up a national team to offer a human landing system for NASA's Artemis programme to return Americans...
08 July 2019
Amazon seeks approval for 3,236 broadband satellite constellation
... is still an open question, as publicly traded Amazon would have to guard against conflicts of interest if it uses Bezos' private space company, Blue Origin. Once the decision is made, the wholly-owned subsidiary will launch the satellites at orbital...
10 July 2019
Virgin Galactic to become the first publicly traded commercial human spaceflight company
... to buy directly into Virgin Galactic by buying shares of Social Capital Hedosophia. So, if the idea of owning shares in a prominent space company has ever appealed, you can do so now for the first time. “Virgin Galactic, along with its...
02 August 2021
US GAO upholds SpaceX's Moon lander contract
... program,” the GAO said in a press release. Last year, NASA awarded almost $1 billion in contracts to three private US space companies – SpaceX, Dynetics and Blue Origin – to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) as the country prepares...
