October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
... access to the ISS will make possible broader use of the station as an orbital science laboratory, and the space transportation systems our partners are developing will make it possible for others to invest in Earth-orbit capabilities. As NASA...
October 2019
Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset
...high traffic levels, which will enable space operations to approach the maturity of airlines. Thus, suborbital space tourism could be the first market to require an aviation approach to space transportation. As well as carrying passengers and science...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... between Roscosmos and Arianespace, as well as the Russian, French and European space industries. As the historical leader of commercial space transportation, mostly for geostationary telecom satellites, Arianespace was in a position to bring the...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
...data related to health, interactions, collaborations, communications, psychological stressors and group dynamics. Space transportation provides access to space and crew delivery capabilities to the ISS. Vehicles include the Russian Soyuz capsules for...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... the cost of access to the Moon, democratising lunar research and exploration and blazing a trail for commercial space transportation and exploration beyond Earth’s orbit. Old laws and new possibilities To the private companies pursuing outer...
November 2021
The philosophy of space missions today
... it comes to living on another planet or back on Earth? Commercial exploitation of space Commercial missions include space transport, space tourism and space mining. While commercial space exploration may seem more trivial than scientific exploration...
