September 2020
High hopes for Brazil’s space ambitions
... enough to change the legal and economic environment if we do not change the way that national space companies look at the space sector. The space industry is not static. It is moving from a sector where the Government was the main institution...
October 2020
Pandemic impacts - the state of the ground segment
... interfaces, functionality and quality are key. Additionally, teaming arrangements and collaborative partnerships are critical for space companies wishing to maximise innovation and speed-to-deployment of their newest solutions. Collaborations allow...
May 2021
Visions of beating gravity
..., CGI has an aerospace branch, so I’m now trying to convince management to initiate partnerships with the major commercial space companies like SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin. A weightless environment would be perfect for me to live and work...
June 2021
Is NewSpace really so new?
... satellites before launch on a Falcon 9 rocket. The shift between ecosystems is well illustrated by plotting the number of emerging space companies, which shows a near-exponential growth over the last two decades [see above figure]. This growth...
June 2021
China’s ascending commercial space sector
...-up founded in 2015. Ultimately, the latter half of the 2010s created a large and growing ecosystem of Chinese commercial space companies, many of which had raised generous sums from VCs. Meanwhile, others were actually earning revenues in a number...
July 2021
Commercial space stations - fulfilling the dream
... we’ve been working on for a while now is international partnerships and relationships We’re seeing more investment going into space companies from the private sector, because they see such a value in the future of low Earth orbit commercialisation...
