April 2019
Cleaning up space
...case are resolved. Similarly, international norms and policies could be altered to streamline regulations and facilitate the business proposition, but that would not necessarily lead to a technical solution. All three issues of technology, policy and...
July 2020
Covid-19 infects global space community
..., power plants and some industrial plants - between 1 January and 25 February 2020. In Europe, governments have provided business support, while Eurozone finance ministers agreed to more than half a trillion euros of new stimulus funding. Meanwhile...
January 2019
Is the NewSpace bubble about to burst?
..., questions abound over the size of the market opportunity for satellite broadband. Certainly, the attitude of Japanese business magnate Masayoshi Son to the project appears to have changed dramatically in the last year, from touting satellite...
November 2021
Space insurance and the future of risk management
...that prior to payment of any claim. However, the advantage of being insured is that property can be replaced and businesses can continue to operate in a way that would be impossible without insurance. Moreover, for many enterprises, insurance is also...
March 2015
Congested, contested, and invested: of space debris, risky launches and private initiative
...the accident, one theme resonated loudly: launch is a risky business. Even if the launch of another telecommunications satellite may appear... of space actors. In the current space environment, business solutions that work in tandem with the adoption of...
January 2019
Smallsat revolution and AI kick-start nascent EO big data market
... Space launched its first satellite in November 2018 after a one-year delay. As satellite operators transition their business from collecting and selling pixels to actionable insights, startups building AI analytics and value-added services from...
