2023-08-10 19:24:52
The Ariane 5 rocket taking off from Kourou in French Guiana. P PIRON / ESA/CNES/ARIANESPACE/EPA/MAXPPP
SURVEY – Thirty new sites are to come into service by 2035 worldwide. Launch activity will continue to flourish, thanks in particular to the constellations of satellites. But all these infrastructures will not find their economic model.
SpaceX’s Boca Chica Starbase and Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin’s launch pad in Texas; Virgin Galactic’s Spaceport America in New Mexico; the Russian Vostotchny cosmodrome in Siberia; the new base at Esrange in Sweden, Wenchang on the Chinese island of Hainan… Since the start of the 2010s, new spaceports have opened their doors to accommodate rockets from “New Space” – this revolution linked to the arrival of private actors in a field previously dominated by States.
«We welcome the emergence of new players in space transport, whether microlaunchers or new space bases. They will make it possible to launch small satellites into specific orbits and on specific dates, whereas, to date, these have been constrained by the main mission of large carriers such as Ariane 5. We are entering the era of space taxi, in addition to the range of the space bus offered…
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