Langdon Morris, one of the founders of InnovationLabs, is quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about innovation. Langdon has recently edited a book for one of our clients about the opportunities for doing commerce in Space. Space Commerce is available at
Lulu.com (
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/space-commerce/12551110 ) or you can read about it at
http://www.atwg.org.
As an
innovation consultant and collaborative design facilitator we have the privilege of being exposed to a wide variety of interesting organizations and projects. Space Commerce is a completely brand new marketplace that will likely evolve over the next several decades.
This third book by the Aerospace Technology Working Group (ATWG) is a broad and fascinating survey of the important topic of Space Commerce. "The authors are genuine experts within their fields, and many of them have been together in the loose collaboration of the ATWG for two decades. They share a common impatience with incremental development and bureaucracy, and will lead the reader in exploring the frontier of this emerging business venue.”Here's an excerpt from the WSJ article and the link is below:
Heavy-Lift Launching
A critical obstacle to any sort of space-based future is getting some rather sizable objects beyond the reach of the Earth's gravity.
But Langdon Morris, a partner with the InnovationLabs LLC consulting firm, notes that while state-invested companies in the U.S., Russia and Europe have developed "heavy lift" launch capabilities, one private firm is moving to surpass them all in terms of payload capacity—an innovation that could slash launch prices and make larger payloads commercially viable.
SpaceX, of Hawthorne, Calif., says it hopes for a 2013 launch of its Falcon 9 Heavy rocket, which is designed to carry payloads of up to 70,000 pounds into low Earth orbit, about one-third more than the Space Shuttle, which is the largest-capacity launch vehicle now in operation.
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