April 2024
Commercial launch development in Spain
...Spain prior to launch on 7 October 2023. When will commercial launches begin and are you planning to use the El Arenosillo...the acceptance and qualification testing there, but our first commercial mission will be from Kourou in French Guiana (following...
05 November 2019
Boeing’s Starliner completes pad abort test for commercial crew
... unlikely event of an emergency prior to liftoff. This was Boeing’s first flight test with Starliner as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program to return human spaceflight launches to the International Space Station from American soil. “Tests like...
04 August 2018
First NASA Commercial Crew revealed
... SpaceX’s Crew Dragon vehicles as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Following the retirement of the shuttle, US astronauts... onboard. “To meet NASA’s requirements, the commercial providers must demonstrate that their systems are ready...
January 2023
Private space stations and NASA’s effort to re-invent itself
... human life in space. NASA first raised the idea that it might embark on a joint development with a commercial partner to create a commercial space station facility under a NASA Space Act Agreement arrangement. This approach had already been...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...-start a new off-Earth economy, just as the US Government’s construction of the Internet, in the time of Apollo, accelerated commercial economic growth, that, in the 1990s, allowed Bezos to transform global commerce with Amazon. The SpaceX Starship...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
..., missile tracking and intelligence collection. Analytics Products: Proof-of-concept Space Domain Awareness (SDA) marketplace for commercial data to enhance SDA. In the past, Space Domain Awareness was set up to track objects in orbit and issued...
