January 2020
Discipline - a formula for success in the Earth observation market EO sector
..., it’s perhaps the most complex sector we’ve ever seen. While the highly visible engineering projects associated with NewSpace, such as satellites and launch facilities, attract the eye in terms of capital expenditure and resource management, the...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... in Canada. Their ambition is to develop and operate space systems and services with disruptive commercial objectives. Rise of NewSpace New Space is not always orientated towards ‘small is beautiful’ These firms bet on low-cost technology to provide...
April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
... published a retrospective on the company’s massive shift of archival data to the cloud via AWS SnowMobile. Soon, the NewSpace ground station-as-a-service (GSaaS) market accelerated. There were a few other instances of satellite operators and service...
January 2019
Smallsat revolution and AI kick-start nascent EO big data market
...In this article, Josephine Millward, Head of Research at Seraphim Capital, the world’s first global venture fund dedicated to NewSpace, shares her observations of leading Earth Observation (EO) players, new entrants and AI analytics startups, and the...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... Moon. So, when it comes to human spaceflight, are the ‘swinging sixties’ of Apollo about to be outpaced by the ‘roaring twenties’ of NewSpace? The distribution of surface ice at the Moon’s south pole (left) and north pole (right) as viewed by NASA...
May 2022
Redefining the space professional – disruptions in the space sector workforce
...Even with the appearance and subsequent development of the NewSpace sector, the space sector in general has remained ...as cashflow to pay salaries can be constrained in start-up (NewSpace) companies and there is little appetite to take on experienced ...
