April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
... A prior valuation of $50 billion assumed $40 billion for Starlink and $10 billion for the launch business. China expands SpaceX... manoeuvre one of its spacecraft out of the way of a Starlink satellite. Some 29,000 human-made objects larger than 10 cm ...
January 2019
Is the NewSpace bubble about to burst?
...required to develop projects like its BFR heavy-lift rocket and Starlink, an ambitious plan to deliver high speed broadband internet via...figure) and excludes non-core R&D on BFR and Starlink. Without these adjustments SpaceX would have made an EBITDA ...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... trend as follows: Mega-constellations, such as those announced for internet-from-space by Boeing (1396 satellites), SpaceX (Starlink, 4425 satellites) and Amazon (Kuiper, 3236 satellites). It is expected that mass-production will considerably reduce...
October 2020
Extending human rights across the final frontier
.... Astronauts aboard the Space Station captured a photograph of the Aurora Australis in April along with a train of 16 of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites – a handful of the almost-12,000 they expect to launch over the next few years. Connecting space...
May 2022
China’s international collaboration in space: an evolving approach from the Middle Kingdom
... a Chinese playbook, namely focusing on domestic production and self-sufficiency; look no further than the revocation of Starlink’s operating license by French authorities in April. This could have been for any number of reasons, but pragmatically...
September 2023
A multifaceted approach to space sustainability
...no sign of slowing down. Just one such constellation, Starlink, will have more satellites when it is completed than all...nations and future generations. Parallel streaks from SpaceX Starlink satellites visible over southern Brazil (the vertical streak ...
