October 2019
Reusability is key to expanding future space launch business
...to the Moon by 2024, in line with NASA’s lunar plans. Ultimately, Blue Origin is a space transportation company; we are, at our heart, a space propulsion company. We are not a constellation satellite company, though obviously launching satellites and...
April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
... CTO of Dawn Aerospace, Stefan now heads various technical teams building reusable launch vehicles and new space transportation technologies. A Kiwi at heart with a dash of Dutch eccentricity, Stefan is currently spending his spare time exploring all...
20 January 2020
SpaceX complete final major flight test of crew spacecraft
... with liftoff from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mission to show the spacecraft’s ...-Earth orbit and the International Space Station. Commercial human space transportation to and from the station will...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
...’s City Council approved the formal pursuit of a commercial spaceport license from the FAA – Office of the Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST). To picture the type of launch that would be feasible, think of Virgin Galactic’s White Knight Two...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
...), which considered both the technology and commercial aspects of ADR. In another recent call for ideas on space transportation, ESA selected Astroscale for a proposal on retrieval of multiple debris targets by a single servicing satellite. The ESA...
September 2016
Transforming US space policy
...this capacity. I propose that the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST) could be the appropriate agency. The American Space Renaissance Act facilitates the creation of a conjunction analysis and warning...
