March 2018
Enabling private sector success in space - SGAC perspective
...Many private companies in the US rely on government support in the form of grants or contracts and the Act demonstrates a willingness by the US government to allow innovation in the private sector. In particular, NASA is dedicated to entrepreneurship...
January 2019
Is the NewSpace bubble about to burst?
... Valley had become from real world business models, the new NewSpace industry currently seems intent on demonstrating the same about the space sector. Numerous planned nanosatellite constellations are struggling to raise funding… and...
March 2019
International collaboration spawns scalable CubeSat EO payloads
... development hardware to support R&D processes. Since the compact Gecko imaging payload first flew in 2017 as a technology demonstrator on the nSight-1 satellite, SAC and ISIS worked to package the imager as a standalone RGB imaging payload for...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... doubt, this is one of the most important questions of our age. Is our Earth, teaming with life as it so demonstrably is, really an exception in an immense but uninhabited universe full of galaxies, each with billions of stars surrounded by planetary...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
...daily lives and, as it rapidly pervades the healthcare sector amongst others, we’re beginning to see more cases that demonstrate its positive presence. Here, Barbara Ghinelli explains the importance of cross-fertilisation between space technology and...
July 2020
The four horsemen of space finance
... past ten years. Not only have key technologies such as launch reusability and 3D printing in space been demonstrated successfully, the nature of space finance has also evolved significantly. Ten years ago, the industry struggled...
