April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... disadvantages of each spaceport option, within the context of the expected European market for space launch. Recent commissioned analysis by Commercial Space Technologies Ltd (CST) for a review of European spaceport developments has shown that there...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
... would never move forward without looking forward. As reusable rockets, 3D-printed engines, software-defined satellites and commercial space station supply missions become the norm, the industry is looking beyond the status quo. Indeed, it would...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... leave Earth is one our entire planet is facing as we get closer and closer to the goals shared by so many commercial space companies. But it is a decision that very few get a say in. Expansive dreams What would it do to humankind’s collective psyche...
16 July 2021
NASA's $25 billion FY2022 funding bill is approved
... companies to build their own and is assisting the effort by providing funding for initial studies of commercial space stations that could ultimately be used by NASA through Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). The agency expects to award ...
22 October 2021
Nanoracks announces plans to launch its orbital space station, Starlab, in 2027
...the first-ever free flying commercial space station in collaboration with Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin. Called Starlab, Nanoracks say the space station “will be a continuously crewed commercial platform, dedicated to conducting critical research...
August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
... at how could we do shuttle 2.0. We were fortunate to have a small and strong team based in California. At that time the commercial space industry barely existed - it was the very early days of what we know today as ‘entrepreneurial...
