June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... executes activities that tend to be risk averse, based primarily on public financing, and generating competence-enhancing, sustaining innovations. NewSpace, on the other hand, pursues common, non-governmental market goals bounded primarily by market...
July 2021
Designing for life in outer space - The importance of design for long-term space missions
... least because it exemplifies two best practices that we would all do well to aspire to; it is an extraordinary example of sustainability because it functions as a sensitive organism and now recycles up to 100 percent of its waste, and it is the only...
April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... of the Artemis campaign. If it proceeds as planned, Gateway will help test the technologies and capabilities required for a sustained human presence in deep space. While the Space Race didn’t become ‘official’ until President John F Kennedy...
October 2025
High-altitude platforms - the search for an optimised legal framework
...or space law, or some ‘bespoke’ hybrid of the models - may provide the optimum structure to facilitate safe, sustainable and cost-effective access to HAO by a mix of aircraft and space vehicles with substantially different operational characteristics...
22 July 2021
Factory of the future for Orion capsules
... for the first time in the modern era. The new factory represents Lockheed Martin’s “commitment to build sustainable and affordable capabilities for NASA to send astronauts to explore the Moon and eventually Mars,” said Lisa...
18 April 2023
Spire launches customers’ Earth and debris monitoring satellites
... from organisations that have leveraged our platform to build space-based applications and gather intelligence to promote sustainability on Earth and beyond.”