January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
... joined STFC in 2010 as Executive Director of Business Development. Before joining STFC, Barbara worked at EADS Astrium (now Airbus DS) where she managed Business Development across Europe for the €3.2 billion joint ESA-EU Copernicus programme. She...
February 2020
Debunking the myths on space patents
... patents were filed in 2017, and almost half of them (49 percent) came from big companies such as Boeing or Airbus. The numbers make no sense in the current NewSpace era, where the number of venture capital firms investing...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... Florida damaged by an overdependence on a large federal programme or agency. In 2016, OneWeb Satellites, a joint venture between Airbus and OneWeb, announced it would build a high-volume satellite manufacturing facility in Florida. In 2019, OneWeb...
July 2020
The four horsemen of space finance
... their larger multi-national enterprises. These are of course the larger strategic firms such as Lockheed Martin, Airbus, Boeing and Northrop Grumman. While this can be a good source of capital for companies, it also puts them...
October 2020
Microgravity and its effects on the human brain
... HDBR, rather than neuroplasticity or neurodegeneration. ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst having a taste of weightlessness aboard an Airbus A300 Zero-G during a parabolic flight. Operational performance Whereas changes to brain tissue have rarely been...
January 2021
Asgardia’s project for a new module to expand Space Station
... of commercial efforts to augment the ISS include the Bigelow expandable module and the upcoming Bartolomeo facility by Airbus and Bishop Airlock from Nanoracks. Most recently, in January 2020, NASA awarded a US$140 million contract to Axiom...
