June 2022
Space logistics: achieving end-to-end mobility for space
... launch prices and offering operators last-minute tickets to orbit will matter less. Eventually, this new space infrastructure will improve the offer from the end-to-end mobility services, with components even manufactured directly...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
... mapping and tracking the disease, monitoring critical assets and assessing the economic impact. Arguably, our space infrastructure has never been more important in the course of global affairs. Maxar is manufacturing its next-generation satellite...
August 2020
Scorpion – a study of the possible
... study, conducted between 2013 and 2019, explored this wider aspect of the failure to adequately evolve space infrastructure in line with what was technically possible. A Scorpion constructing a large, crewed communications hub in geostationary orbit...
January 2021
Spacepower and international relations
...present is through the relatively subtle and unspectacular supporting space infrastructure, not by cyclically debating whether the United States ... the world since the 1990s. The space infrastructure proliferating within and from Earth’s major economic...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
... the same arguments made for the emergence of DSPs. The Moon allows for the consolidation of space infrastructure at a fixed point in space. Given its proximity to Earth, and its own resources, it is likely the Moon will emerge as both...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
...is not alone in being a regional focus of specialist expertise that can contribute to the National Space Infrastructure. There are a number of emerging space clusters, extending out from the national facilities at the Harwell campus and the southeast...
