03 May 2021
NASA tells SpaceX to halt HLS development after protest by rivals
...awarded almost $1 billion in contracts to three private US space companies to design and develop a human landing system (HLS...released a Request for Information (RFI) asking US companies to indicate their interest in providing Artemis astronaut transit...
March 2015
A boom and a (possible) bust in small spacecraft production
... heavy communications spacecraft in geostationary orbit). As a result, vertical integration occurs in these SSC developing companies. Previously, space companies did almost everything themselves (including making bolts and microcircuits) and left the...
31 May 2019
Melting moon dust with lasers to use in lunar habitats
... from the IRAS. MOONRISE will hitch a ride on the first Moon mission of the Berlin-based new-space company PTScientists, a privately funded organisation who have just signed a cooperation agreement with the ArianeGroup to work together...
18 June 2019
Israeli space tech firm hiSky expands to the UK
...) provided £9 million of funding for hiSky to develop cutting-edge space telecoms technology at the Harwell Space Cluster, which is growing fast and already home to more than 90 space companies. hiSky aims to be the world’s first low-cost satellite...
25 January 2021
SpaceX rocket deploys record number of payloads in one flight
SpaceX on Sunday launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying a record number of satellites on board, the private space company said. The rocket successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 10:00 am (1500 GMT), 24 hours after its initial ...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
...policy and planning. Elon Musk has famously made no secret that his space company SpaceX has the goal of sending a crewed rocket to Mars in ...Bezos, for example, has poured money into his own space company, Blue Origin. Balancing act We are now at the ...
