September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... re-purposed vast wealth made in domestic markets and are using that to innovate in new and unknown territory. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, for example, has poured money into his own space company, Blue Origin...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
... (and in some ways donate) their funds and fortunes to making the dream happen. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. Among his many internet pursuits he is also the founder of Blue Origin, a private spaceflight company that hopes...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... at the International Space University (ISU) suggested providing sustainable and affordable internet access for the Brazilian Amazon region using microsatellites. More recently, several companies have begun to experiment with their own ideas on how...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... ways to make a fortune in the 21st century than building rockets. Witness the success of Jeff Bezos with Amazon, versus his ongoing investment in Blue Origin. But Bezos himself is bullish on space colonisation for similar reasons...
October 2019
Ground segment transformation - convergence of NewSpace and the cloud
... have been actively working to establish this model for improved data communication from space. In late 2018, Amazon Web Services (AWS) shined a bright light - as only a company of their size can do - on the need for improved...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... that they’re able to see debris down to 2 cm and provide a commercial service. And with individual operators such as Amazon looking to launch constellations of 3,300 satellites, and SpaceX predicting many more, the number of satellites in orbit...