July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
.... Launched from Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, Still Testing launched four small satellites for Planet and Spire. During the parliamentary passage of the Bill (renamed the Space Industry Bill), some members of the science...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
...-to-doing ratio. Coincidentally, there are already efforts in that direction. On the topic of space debris, Planet and Spire, the two largest commercial CubeSat operators, have self-imposed rules to ensure that their satellites comply...
January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... at 50 cm resolution and each is about one hundreth of the cost of the next cheapest SAR satellite. Another example is Spire Global, which has a hundred-satellite constellation for weather observations that currently produces five-day forecasts...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
.... All that said, this picture will soon be changing as many of the emerging companies of recent years (such as SPIRE, Rocket Lab and Astra) are presently envisaging stock exchange listings via so-called SPAC (Special Purpose...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... by the burgeoning, commercial NewSpace landscape, ranging from small satellite manufacturing companies such as AAC ClydeSpace, Spire Global, Alba Orbital and Craft Prospect in Glasgow, along with a vibrant Earth observation ecosystem in Edinburgh...
January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
..., directly accessible by rail, road, sea and, of course, air. Glasgow’s satellite manufacturing cluster (with the likes of Spire Global, AAC Clyde Space and Alba Orbital designing and building more satellites than anywhere else...
