spaceflight, 3 months ago to SpaceX

• #SpaceX $175 billion 💰
• #Airbus $125 bn
• #Boeing $125 bn
• #LockheedMartin $102 bn
• #Safran $85 bn
• #NorthropGrumman $67.51 bn
• #MitsubishiHeavy $24.7 bn
• #Leonardo $11.85 bn
• #SierraSpace $5.3 bn
• #RelativitySpace $4.2 bn
• #IHI $3.21 bn
• #RocketLab $2.73 bn
• #EchoStar $1.79 bn
• #Firefly $1.5 bn
• #AxiomSpace $1 bn
• #VirginGalactic $767 million
• #ispace $680 mn
• #PlanetLabs $610 mn
• #VardaSpace $500 mn
• #AST SpaceMobile $435 mn 💵
https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/20-most-valuable-space-companies-in-the-world-1259496/

#SpaceCompany

spaceflight, 4 months ago to space

#NASA will pay proposers $200,000 for #Mars 🔴 Commercial Services Studies

• Smaller payload delivery and hosting (20 kg)
• Larger payload delivery and hosting (1,250 kg)
• Electro-optical imaging services
• Next-generation communications relay services

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/for-the-first-time-nasa-has-asked-industry-about-private-missions-to-mars/

#SpaceCompany

spaceflight, 6 months ago to random

🇮🇲 Establishing the #moon 🌙 as a viable location for advanced data centre 💽 missions https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/business/company-data-could-be-stored-on-the-moon-648939

#SpaceCompany #IntuitiveMachines #NovaC

spaceflight, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

If you know interesting #spaceflight companies 🏭, please add* them to #OpenStreetMap https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/aerospace:product. Map 🗺️ with details via #OverpassTurbo https://overpass-turbo.eu/?w=%22aerospace%3Aproduct%22%3D*+global&R

• editing ✏️ also possible by app📱 https://osmand.net/docs/user/plugins/osm-editing/#plugin-settings

Usage example : 🗺️ https://industry.openmaps.space

#SpaceCompany #OpenData

spaceflight, 7 months ago to space

Eighty-two percent of senior executives in Deloitte’s 📆 2023 #space survey said that innovation in the #SpaceMarket is a priority for their organization. #SmallSats 🛰️ accounted for about 95% 📊 of #spacecraft launched in 2022. As of 2022, the global #SpaceSector had attracted private equity investments of about US$272 billion 💰 into 1,791 unique companies since 2013 https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/industry/aerospace-defense/future-of-space-economy.html

#InSpaceManufacturing #AdditiveManufacturing #SpaceRobot #SpaceSustainability #SpaceCompany

spaceflight, 7 months ago to anime_titties

#WashingtonPost 📆 October 17, 2023 “With the flight rates that are increasing, with the other players that are coming on board, we see there’s potentially a big #industry problem coming where the pace ⏳ of #government 💤 is not going to be able to keep up with the pace of development on the #private-sector side” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/17/spacex-congress-licenses-faa-starship/

#SpaceRegulation #SpaceCompany

spaceflight, 8 months ago to random

Some insight into #UrsaMajor #RocketEngine production https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE1HZAPPSrE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_Major_Technologies

#RocketScience #SpaceCompany

spaceflight, 8 months ago to random

@NewSpaceEconomy : Companies make acquisitions for a variety of reasons

• Economies of scale
• Market share
• Acquire new technologies/expertise
• Synergies (“Value Creation”)
• Geographical diversification
• Vertical integration
• Cross-selling
• Taxation
• Financial motive
• Opportunism
https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2022/11/03/space-company-acquisitions-watch/

In order to obtain greater profits 💰, some large enterprises take advantage of market power to hinder survival of new entrants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices

#SpaceCompany #Competition

Pictures (combined): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monopoly_board_on_white_bg.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tintin_rocket_Belgian_Comic_Strip_Center.jpg

spaceflight, 9 months ago to SpaceX

Link list of free online 💻 resources by @NewSpaceEconomy

• #SpaceX Information
• #Space Related Databases, Indexes, APIs and Directories
• Company Financial Information
• Intellectual Property
• Space Legal and Policy Information
• International Organizations
• #Satellite Spectrum Allocation
• US Government Organizations
Federal Agencies
Federal Advisory Committees
• National Space Agencies
• Private #SpaceCompanies and Organizations
• Industry Associations, NGOs and NFP Organizations
• Research and #MarketAnalysis Reports
• Encyclopedic
https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2022/03/13/best-free-online-references-for-new-space-space-economy/

#SpaceCompany

spaceflight, 10 months ago to random

📆 2023 #Brokkr-2 will go on a mission to scout #DeepSpace and visit one of #AstroForge’s target #asteroids ☄️, which has not yet been made public.
What’s changed in the past decade is an emerging economy of companies offering #launch, #orbital and other #InSpace services. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2023/01/24/commercial-asteroid-mining-now-has-a-2023-launch-date-to-scout-its-first-target

#AsteroidMining #SpaceCompany

spaceflight, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to space

#NYT 📆 June 17, 2023 Estimated to be worth about $460 billion 💰, #SpaceBusinesses sometimes operate in legal black holes 🕳️

• In #theory, #space belongs to #everyone
• That perspective is about to collide with #reality
• #SpaceDebris 🗑️ : Since nobody owns space, it isn’t always clear whose #responsibility it is to clean it up
• The #US 🇺🇸 government has #deliberately left some holes
• Business leaders caution against creating so much regulation 👨‍⚖️ that it pushes #innovation #offshore while recognizing that we need rules

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/business/dealbook/space-industry-laws.html

#SpacePolitics #SpaceRegulation

spaceflight, 11 months ago to space

#Weirdly, a #NASA official says fixed-price contracts do the agency “no good” 🤦‍♂️ https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/06/weirdly-a-nasa-official-says-fixed-price-contracts-do-the-agency-no-good

spaceflight, 1 year ago to SpaceX

#Reuters 📆 May 15, 2023 #SpaceX hires former #NASA #HumanSpaceflight chief for #Starship. At SpaceX, #Lueders will join her former NASA boss Bill #Gerstenmaier, who in 2020 retired from the agency as its human #spaceflight chief to join #SpaceX https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/spacex-hires-former-nasa-human-spaceflight-chief-starship-role-2023-05-15

spaceflight, 1 year ago to space

#WashingtonPost 📆 May 10, 2023 #Vast, a #California-based start-up, is partnering with #ElonMusk’s #SpaceX to lift a #SpaceStation to #LEO in 📆 2025. The company plans to send up additional modules. One of its main goals is an ever bigger station that would rotate ☸️, providing artificial #gravity. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/10/space-station-replacement-plans-vast

#SpaceCompany

spaceflight, 1 year ago to random

#NYT 📆 April 25, 2023, 12:50 p.m. ET It is now about 10 minutes after the touchdown time. #Ispace has cut to pre-recorded videos on its livestream. It only takes 1.3 seconds for a radio signal to travel from the moon to Earth. During the descent, the commentator mentioned that the signal from the lander had cut out. That is not necessarily catastrophic, but with the minutes that have since passed, it may be a sign that something went wrong https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/04/25/science/ispace-moon-landing-japan

spaceflight, 1 year ago to space

#SpaceX had some #RUD until the 1st #successful #landing (meanwhile #routine) https://youtu.be/bvim4rsNHkQ
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rapid_unplanned_disassembly
"because of a corporate culture that doesn’t #punish pushing the envelope—as seen in the four #Falcon 9 boosters #crashed 💥 in recovery #attempts before one stuck the landing." https://www.fastcompany.com/90739809/its-spacexs-world-we-just-launch-satellites-in-it

#ReusableLaunchVehicle #SpaceCompany #RocketScience

spaceflight, 1 year ago to Ukraine

🇺🇸 #NorthropGrumman's #Antares, the purpose-built launcher of the Station’s #Cygnus cargo resupply #spacecraft, is nearing a #pause in launches. The #rocket’s 🚀 first stages have been manufactured by #Pivdenmash in #Ukraine 🇺🇦. Each first stage featured two #Russian-made 🇷🇺 RD-181 #engines https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2022/12/iss-2022-roundup/

#SpaceCompany #SpacePolitics #RocketEngine #ISS #cargo

spaceflight, 1 year ago to space

📆 Nov 17, 2018 #NASA will #retire 🗑️ its new mega-#rocket if #SpaceX or #BlueOrigin can safely launch its own powerful #rockets : "we will eventually retire the #government system, and just move to a #buying #launch #capacity on those [rockets]" Stephen Jurczyk, NASA's associate administrator https://www.businessinsider.in/nasa-will-retire-its-new-mega-rocket-if-spacex-or-blue-origin-can-safely-launch-its-own-powerful-rockets/articleshow/66673026.cms
#Artemis #SLS

#LaunchCost #SpaceCompany #SpaceAgency

spaceflight, 1 year ago to instagramreality

📆 1956 #SpaceStation vision about to become #reality https://youtu.be/5JJL8CUfF-o

#OrbitalAssembly https://orbitalassembly.com/voyager

#HumanSpaceflight #SpaceTourism #SpaceHotel

spaceflight, 1 year ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

#Starship #LaunchCost : "I'm highly confident it would be less than $10 million 💰 all in, fast forward two or three years from now," #Musk said about flight #prices during the presentation * https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-starship-rocket-update-flight-cost-million-2022-2

• Starship Update 📆 February 2022 https://www.youtube.com/live/3N7L8Xhkzqo?feature=share

Visualized : 10 million $ / 100k kg = 100 $ 💵 per kg

🇪🇺 #Ariane doesn't look good

spaceflight, 1 year ago to space

#Germany 🇩🇪 , #Italy 🇮🇹 , and the #UnitedKingdom 🇬🇧 (which is a member of the #ESA but not the #European Union) have started #microlaunch #companies that are building #rockets capable of lifting several hundred kilograms to #LEO.
These companies, including #IsarAerospace, #RocketFactory #Augsburg (#RFA), and #HyImpulse in Germany, #PLD Space in #Spain 🇪🇸 , and #Orbex and #Skyrora in #Britain, operate much more like the #US 🇺🇸 #commercial #space industry https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/france-seeks-to-build-reusable-rocket-make-up-for-bad-choices-in-the-past

#SpaceCompany

spaceflight, 1 year ago to space

#Ariane "#Europe 🇪🇺 needs to decide to schedule #Ariane 6's #retirement before its #maiden #flight,” https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-arianespace-rocket-space-race
📆 October 25, 2022 #Ariane boss insists #Europe’s 🇪🇺 new #rocket 🚀 can #compete with Musk’s #SpaceX 🤦‍♂️ He wants the Continent's #space #ministers to back plans 💰 to develop technologies that would make up Ariane 7. https://www.politico.eu/article/ariane-boss-insists-europee-new-rocket-can-compete-with-elon-musks-spacex

Pictures (combined)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ariane_5_ECA_VA223.jpg | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ariane6_logo.svg

#LaunchCost #SpacePolitics #ArianeSpace #ESA