April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
... university project budgets are tight and often require state support. In such a situation, hiring commercial launch services is not an option. Due to technical constraints and limitations on economies of scale, the development and operation costs...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
..., will be relieved. The world’s main commercial launch providers are hoping to make up for the shortfall in GEO launches by offering launch services for these new LEO constellations with each launch likely to carry tens of satellites at a time. While...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
... (albeit Norway’s Nammo is moving in the direction of a small indigenous launcher) a limited demand for national launch services because of a lack of national satellite manufacturing industries. Based on the evidence to date, the front-runners are...
15 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 8-15
... lander developer, and has won a Venture Class Launch Services contract from NASA last year. Thales Alenia Space ...has announced that the first milestone under its NASA Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-2) contract on cargo delivery to the ISS has been...
05 March 2019
New British spaceflight company set for launch
... 1, Black Arrow is confident that it will be able to provide a unique, low-cost, flexible and highly reliable launch service to support regional and International satellite markets. In a departure from established practice, Black Arrow is planning...
18 January 2021
Virgin Orbit rocket reaches orbit for first time
... capacity of the rocket, this technique allows the LauncherOne system to be the world’s most flexible and responsive launch service — flying on short notice and from a wide variety of locations to access any orbit. For today’s picture-perfect...
