March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
...first war-surplus machines were converted for commercial passenger use in 1919. Since space travel will always be much more ...figures, decision makers, artists and opinion leaders worldwide. Commercial use of water ice in craters near the lunar...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
... general assumptions about how the rest of the decade will play out in Chinese commercial space. First, we expect to see continued growth of the commercial space sector. While we may not see annual investment figures reach the nine billion...
03 December 2021
NASA selects three companies to develop commercial space stations
... all the costs, but serves as one of many customers,” said Steve Krein, vice president, civil and commercial space, Northrop Grumman. The company has also been won a booster production and operations contract by NASA valued...
August 2020
Battle for the night sky - from telescopes to ad-breaks
..., have an unprecedented impact upon the visible night sky. Visual pollution from commercial space typifies the dilemmas faced when trying to regulate contemporary space activity and the challenge is to find a solution that is enduring yet pragmatic...
26 October 2021
Blue Origin and Sierra Space announce development of a commercial space station
... day to operate, maintain and sustain the ISS.” “The Orbital Reef represents the next evolution of the commercial space paradigm by creating the first ever crewed private sector platform in low Earth orbit. The Orbital Reef...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... giving an update on a crazy project I was helping lead to save the Russian Mir space station and turn it into the world’s first commercial space station. Walt Anderson and I had signed a lease on the aging facility with the...
