Timeline

• Tourism launches

  SpaceX first passenger moon flight scheduled for 2018

  Virgin Galactic space tourists scheduled for 2018

  Blue Origin commercial space flights scheduled for 2019

• Satellite developments

  OneWeb first launch in 2020 for global, satellite-based internet services to Earth

  Space to cloud data and analytics

  Planet: Planet Monitoring

  Rocket Lab: small satellites for low Earth orbit 2017/2018

• Mining asteroids

  Planetary Resources: first mission scheduled for 2020

  Deep Space Industries: expected mission for 2020

  JAXA: in operation

• Moon colonisation

  Moon Express - three expeditions to the moon 2017/2018

• Mars colonisation

  SpaceX - first cargo mission to Mars in 2022. A second mission, with both cargo and crew, is targeted for 2024.