08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
...in Europe – signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Blue Origin in a collaboration which could see the two working together on a... future mission to the lunar surface, using Blue Origin’s reusable orbital rocket New Glenn. Meanwhile a subsidiary ...
February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
...to entrepreneurs like Elon Musk of SpaceX and Jeff Bezos of Blue Origin? It is clear that they have brought a revolution for ...upper atmosphere, variously called ‘elves’, ‘sprites’ and ‘blue jets’ which currently remain shrouded in mystery. Looking ...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
... in the US being the proposed SpaceX facility in Southwest Texas at Boca Chica. Adding in the Midland Spaceport and Blue Origins private launch facility in West Texas, the State will boast four commercial space facilities in the next...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
...Satellites (red shows where the magnetic field is strengthening and blue shows where it is weakening). This means the potential ... XPrize, SpaceShipOne, SpaceX, Skybox, O3b, ViaSat, Blue Origin, Stratolaunch/Viking, Virgin Galactic, etc. have embraced...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... ideas or outright changing the behaviour of industry. This is no ground-breaking idea such as those demonstrated by SpaceX or Blue Origin. Nevertheless, I find the Vision a very pragmatic and down-to-earth proposal for the current Japanese space...
October 2018
Mining the Moon for fun and profit
.... The price ULA is willing to pay on the surface of the Moon is US$500/kg for 1100 mT of propellant per year. Blue Origin and SpaceX are also developing transportation architectures that require in-space refuelling. In addition, NASA has indicated...
