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SpaceWaves: What it takes to build a Martian supply chain (with video)

Sydney Do joined SpaceWaves to talk about the Martian Supply Chain.

Sydney Do, systems engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, hopes to send humans to orbit Mars and come back in the late 2030s. Following a successful orbit and round-trip mission to Mars and back, the next missions would send astronauts to land on the surface of Mars for progressively longer amounts of time. Even though it may be more than a decade before humans set foot on Mars, the logistical planning has already started.

In a SpaceWaves Fireside Chat on Thursday, Do and Andrew Cox,...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spacewaves-what-it-takes-to-get-humans-to-mars

SpaceWaves: ‘Out of this world’ commodities opportunities abound in space (with video)

Commodities and finance expert Tom James (right) with FreightWaves Executive Publisher Kevin Hill discuss commodities in space during the SpaceWaves conference.

Trillions of dollars worth of commodities exist in the vastness of space just waiting for someone with the technical know-how, technology and logistics capabilities to extract them from asteroids and get them back to Earth. 

“It’s out of this world, literally,” remarked Tom James, a commodities and finance expert who edited “Deep Space Commodities: Exploration, Production and Trading.” The book offers a practical guide for navigating the future of commodities outside the confines of Earth –...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spacewaves-out-of-this-world-commodities-opportunities-abound-in-space-with-video

SpaceWaves: Cargo rockets and a space economy (with video)

Cowing joins for a SpaceWaves talk about the space economy.

Private companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin are entering the space exploration industry with a bang. 

Companies are now designing reusable rockets and offshore platforms, so the costs of launching rockets into space are based more on the prices of natural gas and liquid oxygen, according to Keith Cowing, the longtime editor at NASA Watch. And using rockets to transport cargo across the world is growing in popularity as the FAA decided to ease regulations for commercial space transport in...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spacewaves-the-race-for-space-supremacy

SpaceWaves: The final supply chain frontier (with video)

Avoiding space debris represents one of the biggest “risks” to operating a supply chain in outer space, said Darren McKnight, a technical director for Centauri Corp.

More than 20,000 objects in Earth’s orbit are considered space debris, the majority being man-made objects, creating challenges for interstellar logistics and supply chain operations, McKnight said.

“It’s all about risk. Collision risk is important to minimize — we don’t want to run into things, we don’t want operational satellites...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/logistics-and-supply-chain-frontier

SpaceWaves: Space is the place for out-of-this-world investments (with video)

A photograph of two men talking.

Doing business in space might sound like science fiction, but that future isn’t as far off as some might think, according to Robert Jacobson, author of “Space is Open for Business.”

“We’re developing a core infrastructure like spaceports, launch facilities, new satellite infrastructure, new types of satellites,” said Jacobson during the SpaceWaves session “The New Frontier: Doing Business in Space” with FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller on Thursday. Jacobson became enamored with space...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spacewaves-space-is-the-place-for-out-of-this-world-investments-with-video

SpaceWaves: How robots are building the future in space (with video)

Yuske Taguchi Gitai

Why Japanese company Gitai is launching robots instead of people

Yuske Taguchi explains how Gitai will cut manufacturing costs with robots

Getting things into space is expensive, with the cost of sending up a person orbiting the $100 million mark. 

As manufacturing in orbit gets closer to reality, Japanese company Gitai is preparing robot technology to support the needs of manual labor at a fraction of the cost. 

FreightWaves Editor at Large John Kingston spoke with Director of Business...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spacewaves-how-robots-are-building-the-future-in-space-with-video

SpaceWaves: Financing the supply chains of space (with video)

J Brant Arseneau

The future of space capital lies in private equity

Funding the freight frontier with Space Ventures founder J Brant Arseneau

From childhood, J. Brant Arseneau knew he wanted to be an astronaut. 

Unfortunately, that wasn’t in the stars (and he has the Canadian Space Agency rejection letter to prove it), so he set his sights on growing capital to get him into space. 

Inspired by the likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, Arseneau tells FreightWaves President George Abernathy that it took meeting up with...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/spacewaves-financing-the-supply-chains-of-space-with-video

NASA to develop deep-space freight corridors

Artists image of flood light illuminating a giant rocket ship on launch pad at night.

Same-day delivery may be the last great frontier on Earth, but now logistics innovators have another star to shoot for: deep space supply chains.

NASA is gearing up to establish the first permanent colony on the moon as a transshipment point for even further missions to Mars, and it needs a reliable delivery system to shuttle supplies back and forth.

On Thursday, Mark Wiese, manager of deep space logistics for NASA’s Gateway program, solicited logistics and freight technology companies to...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nasa-to-develop-deep-space-freight-corridors

5 far-out facts about space weather

Photo of a solar flare shooting from the sun.

When storms in outer space occur near Earth, it’s called space weather. Rather than the more commonly known weather within our atmosphere — rain, snow, wind, etc. — space weather comes in the form of solar flares and geomagnetic storms caused by disturbances emanating from the sun. The following are five far-out facts about space weather.

Communication breakdown

Gases and particles stream from the sun to Earth at speeds of a million mph. This stream is called the solar wind. Even though the sun...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/5-far-out-facts-about-space-weather

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