17 July 2017
New company seeks to shake-up satellite launch industry
... of Intelsat), the University of Southern California, Stanford University and Y Combinator Continuity also participated. Y Combinator is a Silicon Valley-based startup accelerator whose notable alumni include Airbnb, Stripe and Dropbox amongst others...
15 June 2018
Company aims to reach orbit with spinning rocket
Silicon Valley startup company SpinLaunch has announced its intentions to launch rockets into orbit, not with the aid of ...
June 2017
Space economics - industry trends and space investing
...that supply chain with innovation. They are characterised by a scrappiness and mentality which is distinctly associated with Silicon Valley start-ups and they see existing business models as broken, inefficient or outdated. Perhaps the most prominent...
January 2019
Is the NewSpace bubble about to burst?
... of Elon Musk and other space billionaires. However, just as it was obvious back in 1999 quite how untethered Silicon Valley had become from real world business models, the new NewSpace industry currently seems intent on demonstrating...
February 2020
Debunking the myths on space patents
... and Deep Space Industries, both champions of space mineral resource exploitation and once backed by famous personalities in Silicon Valley, have stalled. This trend is likely to continue as what some economists call ‘the end of the unicorn era...
April 2021
Making space part of the everyday European agenda
...changes and developments? In 2016 the first satellite constellations were starting and new companies, particularly in Silicon Valley, were beginning to emerge into the EO domain. I decided that if ESA wanted, as a publicly funded body, to be relevant...
