19 December 2016
JAXA signs an agreement for the development and creation of a lunar mining industry
...estimated to reach a value of 90 billion dollars in 2030. “Space resource development is attracting a great deal of attention around the world...implementation schedule for Japan’s Basic Plan on Space Policy. “With strong support from our government and...
20 January 2017
Winners and potential losers of the Obama and Trump administrations
... satellite revolution. At present, it is too early to tell what official stance the new administration will adopt as their space policy and how future funding will affect NASA. Perhaps some indication can be gleaned from the Restoring...
03 May 2021
NASA tells SpaceX to halt HLS development after protest by rivals
... been suspended until GAO resolves all outstanding litigation related to this procurement,” a NASA spokesperson told Space Policy Online. According to Space Policy Online, the GAO has 100 days — until August 4, 2021 — to make a decision. Even if the...
September 2020
Space technology transfer - today and tomorrow
..., increase portfolios of competitive products and lead to new emerging markets. To see this in action we can turn to space policy expert, Henry R Hertzfeld, who reported in the Journal of Technology Transfer in 2002 on the value realised from NASA...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... applications”. By comparison, this proposed definition can be contrasted with the definition of ‘commercial’ space activities in the US National Space Policy, issued in 2010 under the Obama administration: “the term ‘commercial’, for the purposes...
April 2019
Is a military space force justified?
... he warned that it is not a question of if but when airmen will be fighting in space. President Trump holds up a Space Policy Directive after signing it at a meeting of the National Space Council in the White House in the summer of 2018. and (left...
