Does it seem to you that satellite servicing and small satellites are more frequently in the news? It wasn’t always the case, but many believed it was just a matter of time when these business segments would begin to have an impact. This interview by Eva-Jane Lark from the September 2012 issue of Space Quarterly Magazine is with Jim Armor Major General (retired), one of those believers. A …
Read More »Leveraging Space Operations of the Department of National Defence
This interview by Eva-Jane Lark with Colonel André Dupuis, who has since retired from the Department of National Defence and runs the consultancy Space Strategies Consulting, was published in Space Quarterly Magazine in March 2012.
Read More »Surveying the Global Space Sector
What did the global space sector look like in 2011? In the Space Competitiveness Index (SCI) at the time Canada has just fallen to 7th behind India.
Read More »Space: A Healthy Space Program Equals A Healthy Economy
As the Canadian government considers what do to about the future of Canada’s space program we thought it might be worth looking back a few years to the same question that was posed in the U.S. This interview by Eva-Jane Lark with Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses how space and the economy are interrelated. The interview first appeared in Space Quarterly Magazine in September 2012.
Read More »From the X Prize to Mining Asteroids: An Interview With Peter Diamandis – Space Quarterly Magazine Archive
This past week the X Prize Foundation announced it had resurrected the Lunar X Prize. This announcement was unprecedented in the X Prize Foundation history. Combined with the increasing interest in asteroid mining we thought it useful to present this interview by Eva-Jane Lark with X Prize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis which first appeared in Space Quarterly Magazine in June 2012.
Read More »NanoRacks: Providing a Commercial Pathway for Research in Low Earth Orbit – Space Quarterly Magazine Archive
This past week the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) contracted NanoRacks as the launch services provider for the Canadian CubeSat Project. This was the first time the CSA had signed a contract with NanoRacks. With this event we thought it useful to present this interview by Eva-Jane Lark with NanoRacks co-founder Jeff Manber which first appeared in Space Quarterly Magazine in December 2012.
Read More »Bigelow Aerospace – LEO and Beyond – Space Quarterly Magazine Archive
This past week Bigelow Aerospace announced it had created a new company called Bigelow Space Operations that manages and operates space stations developed by Bigelow Aerospace and that they had partnered with CASIS which manages the U.S. National Laboratory on the International Space Station. With Bigelow stepping up operations, we thought it useful to present this interview by Eva-Jane Lark with founder Robert Bigelow which appeared in Space Quarterly Magazine in …
Read More »Space Mining Entrepreneur Discussion – Space Quarterly Archives
Continuing with our Summer Reading Series of articles or interviews that still have some relevance today, we present EVA Interviews – Space Mining Entrepreneur Discussion.
Read More »Interviewed: Jeff Greason, CEO of XCOR Aerospace – Space Quarterly Magazine Archive
On June 30 XCOR laid off its remaining staff as the company faces serious financial trouble. The company that for years promised to take tourists to the edge of space and provide a platform for researchers to conduct suborbital research with its Lynx suborbital spacecraft, is now on life support. They will hire on a few people on a contract basis as they try to …
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