June 2022
Patent protection for space manufacturing
...claims; or by enforcing patent protection against those selling products manufactured in space rather than those carrying out the manufacture. It is clear that patent protection for space manufacturing is still very much a work in progress. About the...
November 2019
The economic promise of space
... problems of coal, oil, natural gas or nuclear energy. Moreover, significant investment in SPS will enable in-space manufacturing. To make space industry profitable, cheap energy will be required to power the extraction of raw materials from mining...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
... maintenance and big data-driven quality control. And advanced non-space manufacturing processes are being harnessed for space through ESA’s Advanced Manufacturing cross-cutting initiative. Fungi/bacteria and severe corrosion and microbiological...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
... being contemplated in the United States, a classic chicken and egg scenario emerged. Space resources and space manufacturing are promising areas for deep space investment Regional rail providers had limited and isolated markets that were successful...
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
... should be reduced significantly which would further benefit the competitiveness of downstream companies. The majority of current space manufacturing capability exists in the southeast corner of the UK. In addition, this mostly belongs to specific...
January 2018
Creating a viable cislunar economy
.... Hence, information will be a major export from Earth to cislunar space. This information will take the form of instructions and product designs for in-space manufacturing facilities as well as information to keep the cislunar economy humming along...
