The latest from SatSure on the rise of Newspace over the last decade, productizing geospatial analytics, investment strategies and more
Orbion teams up with Xplore to provide “Space as a Service”
As reported in Space Daily, Orbion will deliver its Aurora Hall-effect thrusters to power Xplore’s space vehicle called Xcraft to explore the inner solar system.
Alternate Artemis architecture
Here’s how to triple the stay time on the lunar surface with no increase in cost
What’s missing from space exploration?
“Manufacturing” says Made in Space CEO Andrew Rush as quoted in the Jacksonville Daily Record. “You need a reason to go. Every frontier we’ve ever opened as a people was because there was an economic reason for us to go and live and work in that place … That’s what we think is the missing piece in space exploration, . . . that economically-focused motivator to go and innovate and do new things.”
Partial Ownership of Space Resources for the New Space Economy
This paper introduces the concept of Partial Ownership of Outer Space Resources while not conflicting with the Outer Space Treaty. The system allows competition for resource utilization, while preventing monopolies through open ownership and preserving the incentives for investment, thus benefiting all participating nations.
NSS proposes public/private partnerships to develop space solar power
A new white paper lays out the strategy
The Space Resource Report: 2020
The Space Resource has released their compendium of major developments in space resources in 2019, with an eye toward monitoring progress through 2020 and beyond. The Team aims to cover advances in the science, business, and technology development that will pave the way for humanity’s expansion into space
Living off the “land” in space
Building blocks for governance of space resource activities
The Hague International Space Resources Governance Working Group announces adoption of the Building Blocks of an International Framework on Space Resource activities
A proposed solution for space debris removal
Maritime traditions can be used as a model for creation of a space salvage entity that would incentivize private contractors to remove orbital debris via a credit based system.