Contractors proposing to bypass Gateway for the 2024 mission must achieve the sustainable case of going to Gateway by 2028.
When AsiaSat developed the AsiaSat-10 business case, the average cost being targeted was about $3,500,000 per gigabit of capacity.
Some industry stakeholders support extending NASA’s authorization to operate the International Space Station to at least 2028 to improve the business case for investment.
In a best-case scenario EM-1 would launch in late 2020, but EM-1 is more likely to launch sometime in 2021.
A jury trial in the Harald McPike case had been scheduled to begin on 2019-04-09 before the parties reached a settlement.
NASA plans to purchase two additional Soyuz seats from Roscosmos to ensure uninterrupted access to the ISS in case of delays in U.S. commercial crew launches.
Kepler Communications and C-Com connected Kepler’s demonstration cubesats KIPP and CASE using C-Com’s iNetVu FLY-981 Ku-band terminal and demonstrated a 100 Mbps downlink and a 30 Mbps uplink.
ExoAnalytic Solutions has not tracked debris from the 2019-03-27 India anti-satellite test due to a lack of a business case to support the effort.
Mars One Ventures AG was liquidated in a 2019-01-15 civil court case in the Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt as recorded in a 2019-01-16 entry in the canton’s commercial register.
Inmarsat and Isotropic Systems planned to trial a product prototype in a real use-case environment in 2020.
The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale noted that recently published analyses present a case for reducing the Karman Line from 100 km to 80 km.
The Mini Crypto device does not require special handling like other security devices, expanding its operational use case and reducing costs.
Lower launch costs have strengthened the business case for low Earth orbit (LEO) broadband constellations by offering lower latency than GEO systems.
AAC Clyde built Kepler’s first two prototype satellites: KIPP, which launched aboard a Chinese Long March 11 in January, and CASE, which is scheduled to launch later 2018 on an unspecified rocket.
The U.K. Space Agency offered more than $2,500,000 in funds to airports to allow them to pursue spaceport plans subject to business case.
NASA's inspector general has questioned whether a sufficient business case exists for private companies to profit from the ISS without significant government funding.
The U.K. Space Agency will offer £2,000,000to support development of horizontal launch sites subject to a business case.
Kepler’s second demo satellite, CASE, will perform store-and-forward services after it launches in the summer of 2019.
Sky Perfect JSAT signed a launch contract with Blue Origin for a yet-to-be-procured satellite to support the business case for the New Glenn launch vehicle.
NASA Inspector General Paul Martin expressed skepticism about the business case for commercialization of the ISS.