January 2020
Venture capital investment in space
... launch trends to the end of 2018. Source: Bryce Space &Technology Enter the investors This change has brought a whole range of venture investors to the space market, because there are billions to be made from long-term growth areas...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
...coverage means that they are not placed in the space market. Beyond these four main phases, insurance contracts ... innovative underwriters have shown a willingness to support the developing space market and will accept a degree of managed risk to help...
November 2017
Japanese space industrial policy in transition
... little incentive for industry to cut costs and improve productivity. In order to encourage venture entrepreneurs to enter the space market, the government will consider introducing a form of contract that does not require interim products and that...
October 2019
Reusability is key to expanding future space launch business
... satellite marketplace is somewhat under siege these days and is arguably in decline, but there is also the civil space market (scientific payloads and planetary missions) and human spaceflight and cargo (either to the International...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... was elected as President serving from 2011-2018. His publications cover articles on commercial space topics, space tourism and, inter alia, a book on Space Marketing (Kluwer, 2000) and an IAA Report on Suborbital Spaceflight (IAA, 2014). His present...
March 2022
Smoothing the journey to space with the satellite-as-a-service model
... and more costly satellite. SaaS offers an opportunity for small companies and individual entrepreneurs to enter the space market without significant pain and on an accelerated time scale. Mission-as-a-service (MaaS) builds on top of the previous...
