March 2018
Shifting lines and new horizons in Earth observation markets
.... The situation is more complex for the ICT component, as there is no European champion, able to compete with Google or Amazon on the mid-stream segment. Can we change this situation? It is questionable but it raises many security and sovereignty...
September 2019
Expectations in a connected world
...So-called over-the-top (OTT) platforms, such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, NowTV and Disney+, have created disruption within the satellite ...respond to consumer need. With large players such as Amazon, SpaceX, Telesat and OneWeb investing heavily in low ...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...reusable vertical take-off and landing rockets this century; Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin has also ...in the 1990s, allowed Bezos to transform global commerce with Amazon. The SpaceX Starship test article mid-flight during its August ...
May 2020
Protecting areas of scientific importance on the Moon
... of solar power to the region. Vulnerability Organisations are bad enough at policing critical terrestrial areas such as the Amazon rainforest, so how much more challenging will it be to safeguard remote lunar regions? So far so good, but such sites...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
... placement of computing resources off planet. Jeff Bezos, of Amazon and Blue Origin, has long talked of manufacturing in space...costs and increasing launch frequency, the prospect of an Amazon web services beaming directly from space is not so unlikely...
August 2016
The promise of space tourism
... society. Other prominent millionaires investing some of their fortunes in private space travel include Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, who is developing a spacecraft that flies like those envisioned in early science fiction novels. Robert Bigelow...