June 2020
Building a digital democracy in a planetary pandemic
... a global virus pandemic, the world’s first ‘digital democracy’ has continued to function with comparatively little disruption. Asgardia’s Chair of Parliament, Lembit Öpik, reports on a period of sustained productivity for Asgardia’s Parliament. The...
October 2020
Open Source Space
... open source to come together to create something new that could stimulate the next wave of space industry disruption. Delegates at the Open Source CubeSat Workshop 2019. About the authors Anita Bernie leads Strategy and...
April 2021
Space industry trends in the pandemic
... commerce worldwide but some sectors, such as the space industry, have been relatively resilient despite the disruptions and economic headwinds. Rather than retrenching, the space industry as a whole has continued to make tremendous progress...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
...sources of risk) and executes activities in an entrepreneurial way (i.e. risk-taking based on private financing, experimenting with disruptive innovations or commercial-off-the-shelf innovations sourced from other industries). This has led to several...
January 2022
De Ayrshire ad Astra
... Spaceport at the forefront with their innovative air-launch solution. When SpaceX demonstrated the potential of new disruptive large launch vehicles in the early 2010s, a number of start-up companies were founded to do a similar thing in the small...
June 2022
Pandemic parallels
... to cope with the resulting isolation. This was astute, given the abrupt and complete nature of the disruption. The measures necessary to negate space’s innately dangerous environment parallel the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, because...
