04 November 2024
Orbit Fab expands European network to accelerate in-orbit refuelling plans
... to in-orbit operations by enabling spacecraft to be refuelled has announced multiple new strategic collaborations with key European space companies. Orbit Fab, which raised $28.5m during its Series A funding round and boasts a growing team in both...
07 November 2024
Ground segment specialist Leaf Space boosts leadership team
An Italian space company offering Ground Segment as a Service (GSaaS) for the global space industry has reinforced its senior leadership team for further growth following a series of milestone achievements. Leaf Space, which employs 50 staff at its ...
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 ...
September 2017
India’s dynamic ecosystem for space entrepreneurship
... industries such as energy, agriculture, retail, transport, internet/connectivity, etc. NewSpace companies are planning to pick up the buck where traditional space companies have flattened in technology and growth. There is, for example, a whole new...
