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...
28 September 2018
CubeRover to develop low-cost, revolutionary rover in Luxembourg
...fund, according to a government statement, will “provide equity funding for new space companies with ground-breaking ideas and technology.” Adding to the list of companies that have already set up operations in Luxembourg will be CubeRover. CubeRover...
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...
12 December 2019
Blue Origin's New Shepard makes 12th test flight
...scale you use, the “boundary” between the discernible atmosphere and space is either 80.5 kilometres (50 miles) if you are NASA, the...minutes and reputedly costs half a million dollars. The company had targeted late 2019 for its first flights with ...
09 February 2021
Norfolk company targets suborbital market
..., and in turn this leads to lower levels of space debris.” Raptor believes that the provision of short duration space access will enable commercial space companies to de-risk components, increase technology readiness levels, demonstrate technology...
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 ...
