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...
October 2017
Back to the future - heeding the lessons of history
... dictates that when technology eliminates lower skilled jobs, higher skilled jobs are created in their place. Space manufacturing would also have had access to virtually unlimited resources on the Moon, the asteroid belt and even...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... the real enabler is the lower cost of launch, which will allow the construction of giant solar farms in space, manufacturing in space and so on. In the further future, when we consider, for example, the ambitions of Asgardia the...
March 2021
Eyes on the prize
.... There are strong British-based companies making advances in handling space debris, orbital assembly, micropropulsion, space manufacturing and space power. A national space strategy from government that builds on their expertise and specialisms...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... rapid growth in satellite capability will lead the way in the provision of space services for terrestrial use while also developing technologies for in-space servicing and in-space manufacturing. Both robotic and human-tended systems will grow our...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... was ignored by the industry, but a generation of engineering students began asking the simple question: “Why should space manufacture and design be different than that of personal computers or robots or any other terrestrial engineering unit?” Jump...
