10 February 2017
UK pledges cash for commercial launch capabilities
The UK Space Agency has announced it has made grants worth £10 million available in a scheme designed to help develop commercial launch capability for spaceflight – a market that is worth an estimated £25 billion over the next 20 years. The funding ...
03 November 2015
China’s Kuaizhou-11: coming in 2016?
... China’s space program, as saying that the new rocket has big potential and that an investment in the commercial launch sector bring a return of up to 14 times the original investment. It should be noted that in the past, much of the Kuaizhou...
12 November 2018
"Its Business Time" for Rocket Lab's first commercial flight
...Lab’s aptly named mission saw the company’s first commercial launch successfully deploy six small satellites into a low-Earth ..., small satellites using atmospheric drag. The Electron orbital launch vehicle had its inaugural test flight in May 2017,...
18 May 2018
China launches its first private space rocket
... research. It is still early days for this emerging sector, but 2018 could be the year that Chinese commercial launch companies begin to come into their own, as companies such as Landspace, Linkspace and Expace look to increase testing...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
... 2021 saw multiple pieces of space-related information in the Five-Year Plan, including the creation of a commercial launch site, the launch of global satcom, satnav, and EO constellations, and the fourth phase of the China Lunar Exploration Program...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
... exploration of artificial intelligence, expanding an increasingly lucrative market. Reusability of commercial launch vehicles was once derided, yet now multiple launch companies have either embraced it wholeheartedly or are in the process of doing...
