13 September 2019
Long-term sustainability of outer space
... fact that humanity has become increasingly dependent on space capabilities and space-enabled services, thereby making commerce, the human condition, and “normal daily life” vulnerable to any significant disruption in the functioning of space assets...
July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... at the speed of a jet aircraft. Each of these represents an order of magnitude increase in the characteristic speed of human commerce. If we continue to build on the initial progress made by programmes such as X-51A, mankind may enter the 22nd...
March 2015
On-orbit satellite servicing, insurance and lessons of Palapa B2 and Westar 6
... this list of satellite missions, it is the communication satellites that contribute most to our quality of life and to commerce. Satellite insurance policies are carefully tailored to align with the overall risk management approach of the satellite...
June 2015
Lunar Mission One: crowdfunding endeavour and drilling on the Moon
... of investment capital limited only by the risk of financial return. Academia has new scientific and technical ideas. Commerce has business ideas, for both other business (B2B) and consumers (B2C). And the public? Well...
March 2016
Saving Earth from an Expanding Sun
... if you put a space elevator on the other side of the Moon? Its day-to-day function would be to take commerce in, receiving resources from the asteroids, perhaps sending out refined, developed materials as part of a lunar industry. People...
May 2017
India confirms commercial launch intent
... on Science, Space and Technology wrote a letter to former American secretary of state, John Kerry, secretary, department of commerce, Penny Pritzker, US trade representative Michael Froman and director of the office of science and technology, John...
