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June 2019
Space industry prime directive
...Simpson and Mark Williamson, he discusses some of the fundamental changes that are affecting the worldwide space industry, including increasing commercialisation and how our goal should always be to deliver benefits to everyday life.... How important is it that the space industry is seen by the public at large to be bringing the benefits of space back to Earth? If you can’t show how what you’re doing in space benefits humanity, then I’m not sure you...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
...perspective in the second half of 2022 and how the space industry is likely to develop around the world. Last year (2021) was a breakthrough year in the space industry. It witnessed the first all-civilian spaceflight, three ...their appetite with the SPAC IPOs of D-Orbit and Satisfy. Given the capital-intensive nature of the space industry, SPAC will likely remain an interesting option to entrepreneurs looking to raise large sums of capital to...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
...article for ROOM, an edited extract from Ground Control, raises a series of tough questions for the commercial space industry and humanity at large. I continued to stare, causing the line of disgruntled passengers being shepherded out ... in, not unlike a restlessness I felt through the Covid-19 quarantine. As someone who has researched the space industry for several years now, who has engaged deeply with speculative ideals, the prophetic and the...
February 2019
Chaos and creation – cultural directions for the space industry
... culture and have multiple organisations and directives for achieving this. It is simply not realistic for the space industry to try to tackle this on its own. If experts and practitioners of culture are not involved...2017 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) that inspired me to design a new educational programme for the space industry which focuses on teaching the need for involving creative practice and expertise while providing a crash ...
May 2019
Growing Australia’s space industry
...engagement, coordination of national civilian activities and developing strategies to facilitate the growth of the Australian space industry sector. Our first six months saw us establish our core team, release a Charter, forge ...working together on new technologies such as laser communications. Our goal is to triple the size of the local space industry to AU$12 billion and create up to another 20,000 new jobs by 2030 We have also designed unique ...
February 2020
Opportunity knocks for UK space industry
... think about where the real development will come in the first phase of this expansion of the global space industry; a lot will come from constellations of smallsats, and much of it will come from efficient and low...of government support in the early years. What do you, personally, hope to bring to UKspace and the wider UK space industry? The best innovations that UKspace as a whole can bring forward are those based on effective business plansWill...
July 2020
Lego’s replica space programme
... the space industry, space insurance and space education sectors. He is the author of six books, including The Cambridge Dictionary of Space Technology and Space: The Fragile Frontier, has edited three space industry magazines and written... more than 600 articles and papers on space technology. He has a BSc ...
June 2017
European space business incubators and accelerators
... best practices, Mark Boggett, CEO of Seraphim Space Fund, maps out accelerators and incubators serving the space industry across Europe and the UK. The bedrock of space industry activity in this area is a network of ...incubators managed by the European Space Agency (ESA) operating across Eu ...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... legislature as a special district of the state, covering the civil, military and commercial sectors of the space industry. One of its key goals was to strengthen the state’s position as the global leader in aerospace ... opening up maritime trade, Florida seeks to be the global leader in opening up space commerce. The narrative of Florida’s space industry has changed dramatically over the last decade and it has been thrilling to have experienced...
