01 August 2023
Report predicts continued growth of smallsat market
...services to further expand their business horizons. Several players are thus considering >500 kg constellations, including Starlink 2G, Project Kuiper, Telesat Lightspeed, Rivada, Intelsat MEO, and O3b mPower. However, as some constellation operators...
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...
