September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
... are put in place to provide more support for space-led innovation, be it satellites, rockets or deep space exploration so that the world will know that Australia is open for space business. The Japanese HTV-6 cargo vehicle delivers the first...
July 2018
Rediscovering UK sovereign launch capability
...the UK Government to demonstrate that Britain is still ‘open for business’ despite the political turmoil surrounding the UK exit from the EU...the opportunity to develop and attract commercial space business”. This decision shifted the model for funding...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
.... Another tech/cloud giant, Microsoft Azure, also launched a space business recently; it believes that every one of its enterprise customers could benefit from space and see space technology disrupting every industry of the economy. Massive increase...
10 March 2015
ARTES and the world of satcoms
Satellite communications are the mainstay of the space industry: more than half of the space business involves building and launching communication satellites. Satcoms services and applications are the largest space sector and are a major driver of ...
04 November 2024
Orbit Fab expands European network to accelerate in-orbit refuelling plans
A global space business focused on driving a sustainable approach to in-orbit operations by enabling spacecraft to be refuelled has announced multiple new strategic collaborations with key European space companies. Orbit Fab, which raised $28.5m ...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... a host of venture capital firms. About the author Walter Peeters is a Professor in Space Business and Management and President-Emeritus of the International Space University (ISU), Strasbourg, France. After obtaining a PhD in engineering and an MBA...