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...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
...#2 In the 21st century new, small, private commercial companies have appeared on the space market. These new players are having a profound impact on the market as they have started producing spacecraft using the following innovative ideas: everything...
