September 2017
Space nation set to mark its presence in orbit
.... After launch on an Orbital ATK rocket to the ISS, Asgardia-1 will be deployed from the External Cygnus NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer, mounted on the outside of the Cygnus spacecraft. The satellite will be deployed from Cygnus after the...
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
... number of available spacecraft, we can get a rate for the period. From 2007 to 2016 the LEO non-cubesat active fleet grew from 344 to 602 spacecraft. For simplicity, let’s consider the fleet size flat...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... with the limited financial and human resources available to penetrate the world of the NewSpace economy. Deployment of a CubeSat from Japan’s Kibo module on the International Space Station. It would be reasonable for Japan not to compete directly...
January 2018
Maximising the economic opportunities of deep space
... bond market underwritten by credit superior to any private institution. Artist’s rendering of a proposed Analytical Space orbital relay cubesat. Once the financing was in place, the railroad rapidly took off and remarkably, was completed less...
