06 February 2020
Scottish space firm flies to Silicon Valley with Heathrow support
Following an award for funding provided as part of an initiative to help Britain’s small businesses achieve their exporting ambitions, Edinburgh-based Responsive Access has flown out to the SmallSat Symposium in California in search of partnerships ...
June 2015
Innovation at escape velocity: from NASA’s Apollo to SpaceX
...activity enabled by them also gave rise to Silicon Valley.7 The Valley is a hub for high-technology innovation and... framework. In those early days of space exploration, Silicon Valley and the entrepreneurial movement it helped bring about did not...
August 2017
Space invaders and the usual suspects - disruptive trends in Earth observation
... GEOINT Strategy, published the same year by the NGA [7]. Six months later, the creation of an ‘Outpost Valley’ close to Silicon Valley start-ups was announced with the reinforcement of the NGA California branch. More recently still, a new...
June 2015
Space, secular stagnation, and the economic crisis
... realm of the economists have made this exact point. Peter Thiel’s Echo of Hansen Paypal co-founder and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel has made a similar point to Hansen regarding lackluster technological progress hindering economic...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
... is vital, and it is in the mutual interest of high-tech clusters around the World (such as Boston MIT and Silicon Valley in the USA; Greater Shanghai; and the UK Golden Triangle of Cambridge, Oxford and London) to co-operate with each...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... has been doing for the last couple of years. Planet Labs is a well-known NewSpace start-up, based in Silicon Valley that has launched an incredible number of 73 Doves (3 unit CubeSats) since April 20135. But the most remarkable...
